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

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.

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 look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

Your life can never be a complicated journey without you being the one complicating it.

One bad turn does not excuse another.

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.

That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

No, I don’t wear contacts, and contrary to what some people have said, I do not have a glass eye.

I don't immerse myself in the media narrative every day. I establish my own media narrative, and that's what I live.

I think the driving force when I moved to New York was the fear of going home with my tail between my legs.

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.