Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe.

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Civilization is sterilization.

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.