“The truth is out there somewhere, but the dog needs to be walked.”

“Grammar, he saw, was agreement, community, consensus.”

“I need this. I need you. I can't imagine my life without you.”

“The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.”

“People often ask what the meaning of life is. What's the point in all of this? As far as I can tell, life is pretty much pointless without love.”

“the intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality... is the highest act of wisdom”

“Hurry means that we gather impressions but have no experiences, that we collect acquaintances but make no friends, that we attend meetings but experience no encounter. We must recover eternity if we are to find time, and eternity is what Jesus came to restore. For without it, there can be no charity.”