(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

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.

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

The tasks I set out for myself are what I do to beat the perfect pointlessness of life.

I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.

Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart.

Social networking inspires me a lot and how we are related and connected to each other.

There is sadness of when you're watching someone enjoy something that you think is substandard. The ineffable sadness when someone is happy and something is not as good as it should be.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I've always been paying my taxes and I've always been trying to comply.