“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant”

“The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses.”

“...the monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses. For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. Everything is endured- disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui- in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable. And all the while a meter is running inside and there is no hand that can reach in there and shut it off.”

“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”

“The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it. ”

“No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes.”

“No particular reason for anything. I'm free - that's the main thing.”