War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.

Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

Man is hypnotized by the glitter of his own gadgetry