Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

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.

We must unlearn the constellations to see the stars.

I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

A seeker ventures out to find beauty. When he is on the top of a mountain, he discovers that beauty is inside of his heart.

It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.

There's only one thing left here to say. Love's never too late.

I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the system.

I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

I believe there's a God but I'm not too sure of his relevance.