You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

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

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.