I was more alone than if I had been alone.

People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

...the meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.

Whether we're talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that's not the question. Is it more important that sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That's the question.

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing