stop fixing your bodies and start fixing the world!

The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

We're in a crisis. We're in a crisis like I don't think America has ever known in my lifetime. But we have to keep joy in our lives, love in our lives, poetry in our lives, dancing in our lives.

What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don't like; it is the investigation of everything.

There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor."

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.