Autobiography In Five Short Chapters
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk
I fall in.
Quotations
Zen and the Art of Jigsaws
Fortunately, it was more usual for Bartlebooth, at the end of such hours of waiting, having gone through every stage of controlled anxiety and exasperation, to reach a kind of ecstasy, a stasis, a sort of utterly oriental stupor, akin, perhaps, to the state archers strive to reach
There are Many Things I'd Rather not be than Dead
‘A man must live.’ No, there is no compulsion. A man must die. Yes, there are many circumstances in which a man must die.
Everything Dies
Let everything that creeps console itself, for everything that is elevated dies.
With Today in my Eyes
As for me, I could leave the world with today in my eyes.
Death is God
But what is the philosophy of this generation? Not God is dead, that point was passed long ago. Perhaps it should be stated Death is God.
I Never Had It So Good
‘To tell the truth, I never had it so good,’ he wrote. ‘But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.’ That was hardly a joke. When a man’s breast feels like a cage from which all the dark birds have flown – he is free, he is light.
The Mind of Man
The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Your Own Reality
I don't like work. I'd rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work - no one does - but I like what is in the work - the chance to find yourself.
Miracles
It isn’t a case of miracles not happening – it’s just a case of people calling them something else. Can’t you see the doctors round the dead man? He isn’t breathing any more, his pulse has stopped, his heart’s not beating: he’s dead.