Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

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.

This story is dedicated to all those who help, and all those who care.

And lo I am with you always, even to the very end of the age.

You can't make people right by making them feel wrong!

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

Hill Street Blues gave me an opportunity to work with an ensemble cast of people whose work I admired.