“The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fash...” — Alan Watts Quote

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

The menu is not the meal.

There is simply no problem of life; it is absolutely purposeless play; it doesn't have to continue; there is no reason whatever to explain it, for explanations are just another form of complexity, a new manifestation of life on top of life, gestures gesturing. If there is any problem at all it is to find out how people come to think there is a problem, whatever made them imagine that life is serious. Basically there is the gesture. Time, space, multiplicity are all complications of it. Pain and suffering are very far-out forms of play, and there just isn't anything at all to be afraid of. There isn't any ego. The ego is a kind of flip, knowing that you know — like being afraid of being afraid. It's a curlicue, an extra jazz to things, a sort of double take or reverberation, a dithering of consciousness which is the same as anxiety.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

I've never had any difficulty sharing the screen with any actor. For me, roles are challenging, not co-stars.

I've never had difficulty dominating any market I've been in.

I am, really, a great writer; my only difficulty is in finding great readers.