Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.

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

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

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Any effort that has self-glorification as its final endpoint is bound to end in disaster.

You Can't Lose Something You Never Had

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.

Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.

The absolute truth is that the 'I' is perfect and complete; the real 'I' is spiritual and can therefor never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease.

The only legitimate excuse you could have for having a baby in those dire, war torn, famine struck conditions - would be to eat it.

Delivery is about being more efficient, it's about numbers, and it's about extracting costs.

I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.

Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.