Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.

There is a difference between being a leader and being a boss. Both are based on authority. A boss demands blind obedience

Duty eats free will for breakfast.

In England I would rather be a man a horse a dog or a woman in that order. In America I think the order would be reversed.

A tragic life is romantic when it happens to somebody else.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Men fear that becoming 'we' will erase his 'I.' For women, our 'we' is our saving grace Women's relationships are like a renewable source of power.

The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

I'm trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.

If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.