Quality isn't a thing. It is an event.

A culture-bearing book, like a mule, bears the culture on its back. No one should sit down to write one deliberately. Culture-bearing books appear almost accidentally, like a sudden surge in the stock market. There are books of high quality that are a part of the culture, but that is not the same. They are a part of it. They aren't carrying it anywhere. They may talk about insanity sympathetically, for example, because that's the standard cultural attitude. But they don't carry any suggestion that insanity might be something other than sickness or degeneracy.

The kid who is scared is the one the bullies go after. I used to get beat up pretty badly.

So round and round you go, spinning mental wheels and nowhere finding anyplace to get traction. What the hell...is it?

When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.

It's better to live with a sad truth than with all the happy progress talk you get up here in the North.

If you are following the dharma no matter what you do it is moral.