It's better not to see than to see wrongly.

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.

I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.

It is human to sin but divine to be saved.

Why was he drawn to complicated women, or were all women--all people, finally--complicated?

They say a picture's worth a thousand words, but with me it always ends up being well over a hundred thousand.

Really, it is unfair to say that English spelling is not an accurate rendering of speech. It is – it's only that it renders the speech of the 16th century.

Only those who ask for more can get more and only those who know there is more, ask.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

I live by the rule that you should follow your dreams…no matter what you do, you should follow your dreams

I get the worst compliments all the time. 'Oh you're Asian? I love orange chicken.'