“My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”

“You can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.”

“In the information age, you don’t teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he’d have a talk show.”

“Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.”

“We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.”

“The universe is an intelligence test.”

“Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.”

“Science is all metaphor.”

“You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”

“Think for yourself and question authority.”

“Civilization is unbearable, but it less unbearable at the top.”

“I’ve left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.”