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.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

One thing Della Valle taught me is the power to say no if something isn't right. That mattered even over sales.

I think when I was quite younger, I was always quite a tomboy.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil which oddly enough is consciousness.

I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.

Part of being a big winner is the ability to be a big loser. There is no paradox involved. It is a distinctly Harvard thing to be able to turn any defeat into victory.

Emotional pain of any kind is a reminder to stop and look inside.

The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally by consumers who were only newly literate or limited in their literacy. The novel ranked below poetry, essay and history in prestige for a long time.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.

My parents were always very supportive and accepting. They even shared my curiosity for life, or perhaps I theirs.

The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.

The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an external push to make us have a good time. In both cases, our future self will appreciate the help.

If you're a Democrat and 'The New York Times' is calling for your head, you know it's time for an exit strategy.

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life.

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.

Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.

I enjoy moving. I like to be in a new place. Settling down doesn't appeal to me much. I like the whole business of it. And I love the first night in the new place.

I remember in seventh grade we used to wear lipstick to school, and the teachers would get so angry, and they'd steal our lipstick if we had them.

I tend to see - socially, I don't tend to be myself in a male role. I don't know any other way to put it.