In a situation provided with maximum amplification, perform a disciplined action.

It is not irritating to be where one is, it is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else

Originally, we were nowhere, and now again, we are having the pleasure of being slowly nowhere. If anybody is sleepy, let him go to sleep.

no one can deny the pleasures of looking at the night sky

time is a grid laid over our experience which can be beneficially removed

My favorite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write. I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.

Become slave to all there is, no need to become king

That that's unknown, brings mushroom and leaf together

When I received the letter requiring me to sign a form that I wouldn't overthrow the government, I asked my friends what to do.

"Sign the form," they said, "and get on with your work."

Wanderers, no notion of where we'll be going next

To improve society, spend more time with people you haven't met

he said he'd never heard my music. you've never missed a thing

Reading Thoreau's journal, I discovered every idea I've ever had worth its salt

Farting: don't think, just fart.

We should combine nursery schools and nursing homes...bring together the very old and the very young, they interest one another.