"Science in the name of discovering nature's laws, and religion in the name of higher moral purpose, suppress and degrade much of what is most human and most personal about us; and both of them demand adherence to ideals that do not encourage us to attend in any ongoing daily way to the genuine needs of our organisms and their authentic satisfaction."
"In medicine and religion poisons and penances take the place of truth and righteousness. Physicians profess to have provided man with means of escaping the natural and inevitable consequences of his conduct. Why, therefore, seek to know the right and do it? Why be good when you can buy absolution? Why avoid the causes of disease when you may be immunized against them? Why search for causes when a pill will set everything right? Why avoid injurious practices, when penicillin will erase their consequences? Why live cleanly when vaccines can make unclean living safe? Why behave lawfully when a sermon or a pill can annul the laws of life? Why think of consequences when we can beg, buy, borrow or steal a cure?"
"I ride plywood, I talk to my cat."
"For some, getting tattooed is healing. To get a full-body tattoo takes years of suffering, and that requires maturing as a human, learning to experience and overcome pain. It is as if with each piercing of the needle, they become stronger and more complete."
"India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only."