There is no way of making a hedge grow like pruning it. There is no way of making sex interesting like repressing it.

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

The self-styled practical man of affairs who pooh-poohs philosophy as a lot of windy notions is himself a pragmatist or a positivist, and a bad one at that, since he has given no thought to his position.

so, the whole idea, you see, is that everything's falling apart, so don't try and stop it. when you're falling off a precipice, it doesn't do you any good to hang onto a rock that's falling with you. see? but everything is doing that. and so, again, this is another case of our completely wasting our energy in trying to prevent the world from falling apart. don't do it. and then you'll be able to do something interesting with the free energy.

Everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality.