You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance.

Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind.