“..The stuff you learn beforehand will never be one-tenth as useful as the stuff you learn the hard way, on the job.”

“Usually the hard stuff you’re forced to do makes you learn a lot.”

“The reason the ancients had spiritual effect in learning the way was that the theiving mind had died completely. If the thieving mind does not die entirely away, there is no way you will ever attain self-fulfillment. Speaking in simple terms, if you kill off a tenth of the thieving mind, you’ve learned a tenth of the way; if you kill off five tenths of the thieving mind, you’ve learned five tenths of the way. When the thieving mind is entirely gone, eventhing is the way.”

“Don't touch that knife. YOU never need to be holding a knife... I don't give a shit, learn how to butter stuff with a spoon”

“Cause The one thing that I learned from dad besides the cheap stuff fucks you up as much as the stuff on the top shelf does is it doesn't matter what you say or think, or wish you said but didn't say- just what you do.”

“Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs and all these Old Masters running around the inside of the Earth. Why do we have to learn boring stuff when there's all this brilliant stuff we could be learnin', that's what I want to know.”