Philosopher

I have money, fame, a happy wife, our daughter Nell.

The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody envies you.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

What I am is a heretic who's recanted and, thereby, in everyone's eyes, saved his soul. Everyone's eyes but one, who knows deep down inside that all he has saved is his skin.

Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say: 'No, I didn't screw up.'

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

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

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Quality is the Buddha.

The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organise themselves into a professor of chemistry? What's the motive?