You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

Think for yourself and question authority.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

The universe is an intelligence test.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Science is all metaphor.

Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.

You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.

The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly.

Whenever in doubt turn off your mind relax float downstream.

Civilization is unbearable but it is less unbearable at the top.

One cannot evolve from ones robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.

They've outlawed the No. 1 vegetable on the planet.

Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.

There's so much more to life than golf. Family is always first.

I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.

Coming out of university, one of my obsessions was that in the novels I was reading, they seemed to be portraying a world that had a social fabric. People knew each other in 'War and Peace.' They went to all the same balls. These were societies with tightly wound, woven, social textures.

I guess there's a sort of cycle with writing books. There's all the researching and then the imagining and writing - which is the real job - and then there's always a period when the book comes out and you have to lift your head and venture out.

I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.

There's not democracy in the workplace. I mean, through most of our daily lives, the idea of democracy is fairly nonexistent. And I think things work better when the people who have to work with whatever it is we're working with have a say in how it's working.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

I don't look at myself as one of the best pitchers in the world.

When you pursue great flavor you also pursue great ecology.

I get fit taking my bike out in the woods.

I feel more like an environmentalist since I've been up here. There are parts of the Earth that are covered with pollution all the time. I saw weather that was unexpected. Storms bigger than we've seen in the past. This is a human effect. This is not a natural phenomenon.

There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair.

Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities.

I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is.

If I had made it in cheerleading, I would have never been an actress.

As far as more recognition goes, I am happy with the amount of love and respect I have received from other artists and the public. Of course, I would love more, and think I deserve it.

Make your heart a zone of peace.

Life is same for everyone. The difference is only that some are living by heart and some for only sake of living.

To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.

At first cock crow the ghosts must go back to their quiet graves below.

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.