“This is the beginning and the end of the world right here. Look at those patient Buddhas lookin at us saying nothing.”

“Can't you just see all those enlightened monkey men sitting around a roaring woodfire around their Buddha saying nothing and knowing everything?”

“equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha”

“You know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.”

“those who're good stay in Heaven,they've been in Heaven from the beginning”

“Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back”

“He no longer cared about anything (as before) but now he also cared about everything in principle; that is to say, it was all the same to him and he belonged to the world and there was nothing he could do about it.”