Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive.

Japanese would never 'restore' an antique. The signs of age and wear are to them its most beautiful qualities.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

Nothing comes into existence nor does anything disappear. Nothing is eternal, nor has anything any end. Nothing is identical or differentiated. Nothing moves hither and thither.

When everyone wanted to be successful, I wanted to be resourceful so that I could help everyone to be successful.

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

Plan for the rest of my life, I will travel the world and retire in the himalayas.

Bill Bryson's is a synthesizing intellect, capable of translating myriad data into a digestible narrative – rare currency in an increasingly atomized society.

we have quoted freely from the Scriptures and have sought to furnish proof-texts for every statement we have advanced.

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

In the end, I'd loved him enough to let go. From afar, I would love him forever.

I don't paint every day. I'm not that motivated. I don't do anything the same every day.

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

Sometimes we become what we see. Sometimes we take what we see and make it the model for what we refuse to become.