To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead. - Alan Watts

You cannot teach an ego to be anything but egotistic, even though egos have the subtlest ways of pretending to be reformed.

Instant coffee is a punishment for people who are in too much of a hurry.

We are particular and temporarily identifiable wiggles in a stream that enters us in the form of light, heat, air, water, milk, bread, fruit, beer, beef Stroganoff, caviar, and pâté de foie gras. It goes out as gas and excrement — and also as semen, babies, talk, politics, commerce, war, poetry, and music. And philosophy.