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.

New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.

We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.