For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.

It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I".

We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.