He knew that conscience was chiefly fear of society or fear of oneself.

Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self likes. And there is getting down to the deepest self! It takes some diving.

I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

Only the flow matters; live and let live, love and let love. There is no point in love.

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

Our civilisation cannot afford to let the censor-moron loose. The censor-moron does not really hate anything but the living and growing human consciousness.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.