Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!

A lot of people went underground with their spiritual life in the seventies, but they're out there in little nooks and crannies and in the countryside, people who look and dress straight, insurance salesmen types, but they're really meditators and chanters, closet devotees.

The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more difficult thing to give.

I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.

If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.

Life goes on within you and without you