“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, ...” — Alan Watts Quote

“And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.”

“We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.”

“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.”

“My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.”

“I see racism as institutional: the rules are different for me because I'm black. It's not necessarily someone's specific attitude against me; it's just the fact that I, as a black man, have a much harder time making an art-house movie and getting it released than a white person does about their very white point of view. That's racism.”