When one woman doesn't speak, other women get hurt.
over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
. . . it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.
True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
All men have opinions, but few think.
An honest god is the noblest work of man. . . . God has always resembled his creators. He hated and loved what they hated and loved and he was invariably found on the side of those in power. . . . Most of the gods were pleased with sacrifice, and the smell of innocent blood has ever been considered a divine perfume.
We must help each other to be present and compassionate. Remember that we have no idea what the person next to us is going through; compassion is the only choice.
Someone who wants to attain enlightenment must be brave. He must rush into the crowd of enemies with a dagger. In the practice of Zen, enemies are our delusive thoughts and passions.