But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.

In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is without significance.

The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.

The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both.

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.