“you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?”

“But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man's law shall bind you if you break your yoke but upon no man's prison door? What laws shall you fear if you dance but stumble against no man's iron chains? And who is he that shall bring you to judgment if you tear off your garment yet leave it in no man's path? People of Orphalese, you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?”

“All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.”

“A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums.”

“What is stupidity? "Hostility to one's powerful and efficient commander, or to someone who can harm you or benefit you”

“ If you can walk you can dance, and if you can talk you can sing.”