Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own te... - Alan W. Watts

"The menu is not the meal."

"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."

"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."

"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."

"Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know."