“When it comes to wine and buttocks, the redder, the better.”

“Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.”

“Books are open doors to other dimensions where everything is possible and nothing is forbidden.”

“What if we changed the story that has been peddled to us over thousands of years by those religions that want to control us, that this life is merely a stepping stone to something better or something worse, and that we can only achieve the better by passing through the doors of their institutions and following their rules? What if we trash this arcane story which has caused so much suffering and hostility, and accept that we have already arrived in heaven and that there is nothing more gorgeous than here and now?”

“The excellence reflex is a natural reaction to fix something that isn't right, or to improve something that could be better. The excellence reflex is rooted in instinct and upbringing, and then constantly honed through awareness, caring and practice.The overarching concern to do the right thing well is something we can't train for. Either it's there or it isn't.”

“I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.”

“The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.”