We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.

The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

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

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't.

What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

The moral peril to humanity of thoughtlessly accepting these conveniences [of materialism] (with their inherent disadvantages) as constituting a philosophy of life is now becoming apparent. For the implications of this disruptive materialism... are that human beings are nothing but bodies, animals, machines.