Godzilla also represents the fear of nuclear annihilation, which was something that was big in my mind at the time. It was something that the people of this forthcoming generation haven't had to live with, but people around my age grew up with the idea that we could all be blown up at any minute. That's also what got me into hardcore music.

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

The real goal of Zen is to find a way of life that's easy and undramatic. Strong attachments lead to upset and drama.

You know that for sure because Godzilla was killed by an ordinary missile. He spends most of that film dodging them but then the Army finally gets a bead on him and they shoot a missile at him and he blows up and dies, and that's not what Godzilla is. Godzilla is supposed to be a thing that you can't possibly kill, no matter how hard you try.

Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.

Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.