The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.

There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.

The only serious side-effect of #‎ marijuana is that you might get arrested.

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

Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.