I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away.

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

I was raised by a black maid by the name of Ida Young and I probably talked to her more than anybody, so whatever is nutty about me was nutty about her, too, I think because I saw a lot more of her than I did of my parents.

The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!