I like being moved. I don't like being pushed.

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

Everything I see is something I haven't memorized.

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.

All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

I like being moved. I don't like being pushed.

Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.