No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Make the universe your companion, always bearing in mind the true nature of things-mountains and rivers, trees and grasses, and humanity-and enjoy the falling blossoms and the scattering leaves.

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

A flute with no holes is not a flute.

Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.

From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree; And from the bamboo, of the bamboo

There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions.

Conversation with God leads to an encounter with God. Prayer turns theology into experience.

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

When you lie there's always going to be a consequence. Lying never wins at the end.

All the pictures on the walls, they all white as lilies and smiling like alligators.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

In any profession, there's a sleazy side and an honorable side

I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don't organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.

I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.

Feminism's latest victory: the right to get your limbs blown off in war. Congratulations.