You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives, The crackle of their funeral pyres,

Once upon a time, there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.

The most expected thing you can expect is what's unexpected.

itt was snowing as if you could hear wolves howling

Question everything, even the question mark, that shepherd's crook floating in the air above that small round rockIf you - stubbornly - still wish to be unhappy, maybe you can grasp it.

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

Like most of the world's population I'm into coffee, my perfect weekend would start with a pint of coffee.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

The only minority in America that's asking for integration is the so-called Negro, primarily because he is inferior, not inherently inferior, but he's economically, socially, politically inferior.

Stay cool, stay humble, stay beautiful, and just do the work

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

You can't lead me down that rode.

It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.