Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.

Our view of reality is like a chart of the sea - the truer it is, the less likely we will become lost.

The point is seeing that THIS - the immediate, everyday and present experience - is IT, the entire and ultimate point for the existence of a universe. I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal, the pretentious nonsense which passes for the serious business of the world would dissolve in laughter.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.