Belief may serve as a useful stopgap measure in the absence of actual experience, but once you see … [it] becomes unnecessary.

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?

Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]

Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.

Jews can't serve on juries because they insist they're guilty.

I really try to focus on my books and readers.

Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.

Literature is the most beautiful of countries

You have to operate from the sense of everything is new and you're starting again.

You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love's supposed to be scary. Because if there's no fear, there's no thrill.

All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance

It is in the doing that the real blessing comes. Do it! That's our motto.

Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.