“The effective object of worship is the bottle and the sole religious experience is that state of uninhibited and belligerent euphoria which follows the ingestion of the third cocktail.”

“But belligerence was a poor aid to concentration, as were three gins and a bottle of wine”

“It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.”

“That which cannot be smelt by the breath, but by which the breath smells an object—That alone know as Brahman and not that which people here worship.”

“...there is no deeper religious feeling than the feeling for the natural world. I wouldn't separate the world of nature from the religious instinct...I would not even object to saying that the sense of awe before the grandeur of nature is itself a religious experience.”

“I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.”