The Master said, "The gentleman harmonizes [he] without being an echo. The petty man echoes [tong] and does not harmonize.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.

Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. Probably the best way is to be from Mars.

I think what is being pointed out is that human consciousness and reality are not the same thing.

The world you live in is shored up by a collective of agreements. Is that something you think about? The hope is that the truth of the world somehow lies in the common experience of it. Of course the history of science and mathematics and even philosophy is a good bit at odds with this notion. Innovation and discovery by definition war against the common understanding. One should be wary.

You might change your mind about what you hate to leave, he said.

He pulled the boy closer. Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.