The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream.

The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much.

The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.

Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest?When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.

Ever hear a song you love so much you wanna break sh*t?

[A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and have the entire universe disappear apart from a single blazing visualised sigil or muttered spell.

Without the right to defend yourself--and the right to possesss the means to do it--all other supposed rights are so much hot air.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

When I don't say a word and you know exactly what I mean.

You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

I did live in Paris for three years and I prefer New York.

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.