I'd say writing is easier for me now than it once was, but I do less of it.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Good music is good music.

We believe in healthy, hearty laughter -- at the expense of the whole human race, if needs be. Needs be.

The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent from the bottom.

An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.

Americans don't think we should be raising taxes on anybody, especially in the middle of a recession.

Food affects the mind. For the practice of any kind of yoga, vegetarianism is absolutely necessary since it makes the mind more pure and harmonious.

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves.