Ecological devastation is the excrement, so to speak, of man's power worship.

In seeking to avoid evil, humanity is responsible for bringing more evil into the world than organisms could ever do merely by exercising their digestive tracts. It is our ingenuity, rather than our animal nature, that has given our fellow creatures such a bitter earthly fate.

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of shared meanings. There is something in his life experience that makes him take in the world as a problem; as a result he has to make personal sense out of it.

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awareness, or he spends his time shopping, which is the same thing.