Things have done their part; it is for us to do ours.

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

When we can see the star of desire in our sky, we can use our wings of hope and our air of love to reach it.

If you were my child, I would staple you to your bedroom wall.

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

I think it’s easyto confuse love with other things.Lust, for one. Need, for another

If you're crazy, there's two things you can do to make yourself feel better: One is to get yourself cured. The other is to make everyone you have to deal with crazy.

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

My personal style can be everything from girly and flirty to edgy and chic.

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

In the land of genius, the sun always shines; in the land of clever, there are many clouds!

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.