Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.

It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.

In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference.

If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants.

There has to be a common sense cutoff for craziness, and when that threshold is exceeded, then the criteria for publication should get far, far more stringent.

You can never represent yourself totally .... to seek self -knowledge is to embark on a journey which ... will always be incomplete, cannot be charted on a map, will never halt, cannot be described.

In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

Who lies for you will lie against you.

Novelisation doesn't imply the truth. Readers are sophisticated enough to know that.

You can't find the sound if you just love sleep.

Laughing at ones own attempt at humor while saying things just come to me should be punishable by death.

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.

I grew up in a community that was bilingual. I've done it for a while, singing in both languages.

I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.

I don't really use still photography very much anymore except to document my work.

Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.

Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.