The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)

Let me be the type man who plants a field of flowers so you can be the type of woman who picks them.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered the point is to discover them.

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

Day-thoughts feed nightly dreams; And sorrow tracketh wrong, As echo follows song.

But can a song stop a war? If Bob Marley and Bob Dylan couldn't do it, it can't be done.

A person must try to worry about the things that aren't important, so that he won't worry about the things that are.

It's amazing how low you go to get high.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.