Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.

A strip of water's spread in the setting sun, Half the river's emerald, half is red. I love the third night of the ninth month, The dew is like a pearl; the moon like a bow.

Two monks sit facing, playing chess on the mountain, The bamboo shadow on the board is dark and clear. Not a person sees the bamboo's shadow, One sometimes hears the pieces being moved.

If the Fleeting World is but a long dream, it does not matter whether one is young or old.

Fumes of wine shorten the long road.

A little child paddles a little boat, Drifting about, and picking white lotuses. He does not know how to hide his tracks, And duckweed's opened up along his path.

Hallucinations aren’t always out of the ordinary. How do we know we’re not hallucinating if everything seems plausible?

It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.

Awareness is the starting point of every quest and the outcome of every journey.

Promise large promise is the soul of an advertisement.

You blame me for this, don't you?" he says."I don't need to. You're doing a better job.

Attitude determines effort.

This morning, for the first time in a long time, the joy again of imagining a knife twisted in my heart.

I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called 'Starry Room' and then I started turning over a new leaf.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.