Alan Watts

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

The menu is not the meal.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

This is the real secret of life – to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

Now I’m a warrior.

The philosophy of life indicates that our principal business on this planet is the gaining of experience.

Mr. Watson , come here, I want you

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

I have some wonderful friends from the Mideast that are as red, white and blue as anybody you know, that have been harassed, and I think it’s a terrible, terrible thing.

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?

Roaming through the jungle of ‘oohs’ and ‘ahs’, searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Flawed and (still) worthy.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

I lie and tell you I had a dream about you last night, so it makes it more socially acceptable to reach out to someone I haven’t spoken to in years.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people.

I have a private life in which I do not permit interference. It must be respected.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.