If I do not know that I do not know, I think I know. If I do not know that I know, I think I do not know.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

Women receive he insults of men with tolerance, having been bitten in the nipple by their toothless gums.

Do not adjust your mind, the fault is in reality.

We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians

I've had an unusual life. A life far removed from most people's experience.

Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

It's not always easy to do what's not popular, but that's where you make your money. Buy stocks that look bad to less careful investors and hang on until their real value is recognized.

I ain't getting on no time machine.

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

I find letters from God dropt in the street, and every one is sign'd by God's name.