Occupation: Writer Birth: September 6, 1928 Death: April 24, 2017
Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive.
What's new?" is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia an….
New York has always been going to hell but somehow it never gets there..
We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biolo….
If there were only one person in the world, is there any way he could be insane?.
A thing that has no value does not exist..
Good is a noun rather than an adjective..
Man is not the source of all things, as the subjective idealists would say. Nor is he the passive observer of all things, as the objective idealists ….
Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease..
Only social patterns can control biological patterns, and the instrument of conversation between society and biology is not words. The instrument of ….
Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic..
That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel..
Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize the….
There is a perennial classical question that asks which part of the motorcycle, which grain of sand in which pile, is the Buddha. Obviously to ask th….
When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself..
For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him..
Institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than truth,….
The only zen thoughts you can find on a mountain summit are those you brought yourself..
A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable..
That's the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface..
In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty..