Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.

Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.