To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink.

I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.