Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.

I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.