"You can't get wet from the word..." - Quote by Alan Watts

“Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.”

“Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.”

“It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.”

“In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy.”

“Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.”

“My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.”

“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”

“The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.”

“Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.”