"The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive."
"The menu is not the meal."
"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."
"There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said."
"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."
"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."