Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

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.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.