Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

There is something else to be said about this immediate, spontaneous way of working, and that is this: in such moments, one is playing at the game of creation.

One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably. You become an anomaly of nature, a being without shadow; you will never die again but only pass away like the phenomena about you.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.