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

Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.

You're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe...

What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

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