“A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.” — Alan Watts

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.