Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much.

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

Bein Crazy is the least of my worries.

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.