When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

People say mental hospitals are for the patients, in fact they are to protect society from them. They are justified in doing that. Society has to do what is best for itself.

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

The pencil is mightier than the pen.

The buddah can reside in the gears of a motorcycle as easily as in a flower on a mountaintop. To believe otherwise is to demean the buddah; which is to demean one's self.