All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.