The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

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.

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.

No matter where you are, just be grateful for your life and all of the beauty that surrounds you.

I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

It is only safe to mock a crocodile when you have crossed the river.

The magic of autumn has seized the countryside

It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age - once you learn to keep a cork in it.

Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.

I'm a people person...who drinks.

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.