Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.

Zen is magic. It gives you the key to open the miraculous. And the miraculous is in you and the key is also in you.

There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available.

A gentleman does things no gentleman should do in a way only a gentleman can.

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

That's the first rule for anybody who controls - do no harm.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

You can stump any stoner with one question: What were we just talking about?

One good thing about being locked in a cage: No responsibility!

When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us... Ideas come. Insights accrete.

Measure me while I live - after it will be too late.

Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.