Peaceful Pondering Pillows

"Don't let it slam."

"They haven't said two words to each other—it's sad... I hope we don't end up like that." "They keep talking to each other—it's exhausting... So glad we don't have to do that."

Crowded Ice Fishing

"I thought there would be bacon here."

'I made a hundred on the Spanish test. Gracias.'

"Look, if I had all the answers, would I be living alone on the top of a mountain?"

"Sitting here with you each day at sunset reminds me I have to get a job."

'If someone farts in the forest and there's no one around to smell it, does it make a stink?'

"You've been served."

"Just when I thought I had all the answers, I forgot what the questions were."

'When you invented vegetables, Sir, did you know that my mother would be able to fit them all into one garden?'

'Sometimes, in the stillness and warmth of an afternoon sun, I can almost hear interest compounding.'

'Naughty? Nice? Santa, I don't deal in absolutes.'

"You can tell us the sound of one hand clapping here, or you can tell us downtown."

'Yes sir, Thoreau had the right idea.'

"Have you tried turning off your conscious mind and then turning it back on again?"

"You what? Well, you darn well ought to have a guilt complex"

"Gotta cut back on my binge thinking."

Fish sleeps while counting worms that jump over a fence.

'By George, this one I think I'm going to like!'

"And please let Alan Greenspan accept the things he cannot change, give him the courage to change the things he can and the wisdom to know the difference."

'I warned him that this was no place for a guy with inner-ear problems.'

'How come there aren't any peace heroes?'

"You can't have it both ways, kid."

"Autumn already? O.K., I'll come down."

"I dreamed Lucian Freud was coming to paint us."

'Well, in my case, Muzak DOESN'T help with meditation!'

'Hurry up and enjoy your life as a pensioner! Three.. Two.. One..'

Visit a Place in your Past...

"Does my brain look big in this?"

"What advantage do I have? What do I do better than others? What do people see as strengths?"

The thinker.

"Look, I'm happy to drop my attachment to ego, but please, don't expect me to give up coffee!"

'Well, doc, I just can't escape this feeling that everyone's in a happy vrelationship, except me. Doc?'

Spirituality.