Even before you've gone anywhere, you feel like you've gone somewhere

Man is dust. Rue is rain. Life is mud.

Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

Sometimes it is better to work out the map for yourself rather than have it given to you, in terms of learning.

Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.

don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?

No truth could ever fear me.

It's the sense of walking back into the Garden of Eden or something like that. Where suddenly everything is perfect and you see how you're connected to everything in the world.

There is no shame in black beauty.

Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.

Every time a man dies, a child dies too, and an adolescent and a young man as well; everyone weeps for the one who was dear to him.