When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.

Yes, I am going into the woods; I am going into the unity of all things.

What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient?