What follows is based on actual occurences. However,it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual about motorcycles,either."

"Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food."

The solutions all are simple -- after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know" it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths..."

"One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, messmakers."