"I travel in gardens and bedrooms, basements and attics, around corners,
through doorways and windows, along sidewalks, up stairs, over carpets,
down drainpipes, in the sky, with friends, lovers, children, and heroes;
perceived, remembered, imagined, distorted, and clarified."
				- Tom Robbins

"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
				- John Lennon

"Tactics is knowing what to do when there is something to do.
 Strategy is knowing what to do when there is nothing to do."
				- Savielly Tartakover, Polish Chess Grand Master

"I am not in this world to live up to your expectations.
 Neither are you here to live up to mine."
				- Peter Tosh

"Angels fly because they take themselves lightly."
				- Jean Cocteau

"'Stay,' he said, his right arm around her waist and her face
 expectantly turned to him, 'shall it be the kiss pathetic,
 sympathetic, graphic, paragraphic, intellectual, paroxysmal,
 quick and dismal, slow and unctuous, long and tedious, devotional,
 or what?' She said perhaps that would be the better way."
				- Charles Bousbaugh

"We often think that when we have completed our study of 'one' we
 know all about 'two' because 'two' is 'one and one.' We forget that
 we still have to make a study of 'and.'
				- A. Eddington

"Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient
 citizenship as the ability to read and write."
				- H. G. Wells

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
				- B. Disraeli

"Beware, as they say, of mistaking the finger for the moon when
 you're pointing at it."
				- John Cage

"He was trying to frame a question that would take in all the questions
 and elicit an answer that would be all the answers, but it kept coming
 out so simple that he distrusted it."
				- Tom Stoppard

"There are a number of very important irreversibles to be discovered
 in our universe. One of them is that every time you make an experiment
 you learn more: quite literally, you can not learn less."
				- R. Buckminster Fuller

"Not to dream boldly may turn out to be simply irresponsible."
				- George Leonard

"If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it
 and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever
 been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it
 into the realm of magic."
				- Tom Robbins

"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."
				- Lao Tzu

"Everything is relevant. I call it loving."
				- James Tate

"If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top
buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along makes a fortuitous
life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to design a
life preserver is in the form of a piano top."
				- R. Buckminster Fuller

"In Japan we have the phrase Shoshin, which means 'beginner's mind.'
 The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind. Our
 'original mind' includes everything within itself. This does not
 mean a closed mind, but actually an empty mind and a ready mind.
 If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is
 open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities;
 in the expert's mind there are few."
				- Shunryu Suzuki

"Make a mistake today for me."
				- Jonathan Richman

"When I face the celestial tribunal, I shall not be asked why I was
not Abraham, Jacob, or Moses. I shall be asked why I was not Zusia."
				- Rebbe Zusia, on his deathbed

"That which is one is one. That which is not one is also one."
				- Chiang Tzu

"Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination."
				- Marcel DuChamp

"I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the
 incomparable waste of time we call suffering."
				- Colette

"Henceforth I shall accept what I am and what I am not. With my
 limitations and my gifts, I shall go on using life as long as
 I am in this world and afterwards. Not to use life - that alone
 is death."
				- George Sand

"The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to
 them: there ought to be as many for love."
				- Margaret Atwood

"Everyone is indispensable."
				- Jean Renoir

"In theory, theory and practice are indistinguishable.
 In practice, they are not."
				- Proceedings of the Symbolic Logic Conference

"It matters immensely. The slightest sound matters. The most momentary
 rhythm matters. You can do as you please, yet everything matters."
				- Wallace Stevens

"I have heard all that you have to say to me on your problems. You ask me
 what to do about them. It is my view that your real problem is that you
 are a member of the human race. Face that one first."
				- Idries Shah

"Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching 
 things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken."
				- Idries Shah

"O tribe of spirits and of men, if you are able to slip through the
 parameters of the skies and the earth, then do so." - The Koran