...we make our lives by what we love.

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

Art's purpose is to sober and quiet the mind so that it is in accord with what happens.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

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.

I was shocked at college to see one hundred of my classmates in the library all reading copies of the same book. Instead of doing as they did, I went into the stacks and read the first book written by an author whose name began with Z. I received the highest grade in the class. That convinced me that the institution was not being run correctly. I left.

Ideas are one thing and what happens is another.