I am the thought you are now thinking.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

In one equation you can solve all the puzzles of life. It is the equation of giving.

We vastly underestimate the power of transformation of mind.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky.

There's nobody in show business that I dislike so I wouldn't want to get in there to hurt anybody.

The fight to make ends meet, keeps a man upon his feet.

Obviously this is engagement ring city. Couples are wandering along and girls are pointing through the windows and the men are smiling but all look slightly sick whenever their girlfriends turn away.

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.