under the present brutal and primitive conditions on this planet, every person you meet should be regarded as one of the walking wounded. we have never seen a man or woman not slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief. we have never seen a totally sane human being.

Since things are moving faster and faster, we cannot afford the amount of stupidity that we used to be able to tolerate.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Artistic judgments are silly if expressed as dogmas, at least until we get an "artometer" which can measure objectively how many micro-michelangelos or kilo-homers of genius a given artifact has in it.

I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of creativity, the atrophy of imagination. I have opinions but no Belief System (B.S.)