All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.

Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.

Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.