In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...

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.

LIII.What is the holiness of conversation? It isto master death.

(Writing) - the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

The more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.

You can't change people, but most importantly, unless you're their momma, you don't even know what's best for them.

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.

There's digital fatigue. When you can do everything, you can actually do nothing.

Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

The closest I've ever come to saying "no" is "Not now, we're landing."

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.