Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself.

You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future. The cutting edge of the instant right here and now is always nothing less than the totality of everything there is.