“Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...”

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”

“I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be born in the first place, and only so we can have our poor gentle flesh laid out to such impossible horrors as huge mountains and rock and empty space,' and with horror I remembered the famous Zen saying, 'When you get to the top of a mountain, keep climbing.' The saying made my hair stand on end; it had been such cute poetry sitting on Alvah's straw mats.”

“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”

“Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy”

“It's impossible to fall of mountains you fool!”

“When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy! ”