[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?

Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]

[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. … [T]his can never match Reality, … because the world isn't frozen.

Relation is when each have Same words to speak, Conversation will be Awesome.

Pull up the shades so I can see New York. I don't want to go home in the dark.

The sun moon and stars would have disappeared long ago had they been within the reach of predatory human hands.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.

I don't see myself as a famous person.

There's something to be said for writing in the morning. At other points in the day, you're a bit more defensive.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't specifically building the story that needs to be built at that moment.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.