It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through me, each inhabiting me for a little time and then leaving to be replaced by another.

At Shea Stadium, I saw the top of the mountain.

People always got the image I was an anti-Christ or antireligion. I'm not. I'm a most religious fellow. I was brought up a Christian and I only now understand some of the things that Christ was saying in those parables. Because people got hooked on the teacher and missed the message. All this bit about electing a President. We pick our own daddy out of a dog pound of daddies.

Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

I believe that time wounds all heals. (karma)