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.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

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.

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

What must not be read must not be written.

I'm drowning and you're stealing every breath.

tread carefullyinto my life, my dear.the currents are strong.you will get lostin this warm oceanof my skin.

It is what you think, not what you achieve, that makes you happy.

There are ways of doing stunts without me. I get no pleasure putting my life in jeopardy just to get the shot. Life is too short for that nonsense.

To inflict cruelties on defenceless creatures, or condone such acts, is to abuse one of the cardinal tenets of a civilized society - reverence for life.

The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

Everyone is more than what you see on the cover; we all run deep and have our story.