You should have noticed by now, sometimes a monster looks just like any other man.

If an ordinary man can be tapped to be the Messiah...then perhaps any one of us is capable of bringing about the Redemption.

What else could I do? You couldn't just say no. I had to think about...my...position.

Time is the soul of this world.

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

I needed sleep. Big squishy bunches of it. Soon.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?

[Regarding President Obama] Yeah, yeah, yeah, I talked to him. I sorta, I guess, helped him get elected.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

I have to be stretched in some way. There's not enough things that come my way that I fancy.

Disfranchisement is the deliberate theft and robbery of the only protection of poor against rich and black against white.

Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.