“What I've learnt - to my cost - on several occasions in my life, is that people will put up with all manner of bad behaviour so long as you're giving them what they want. They'll laugh and get into...”

“Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth.Hal...”

“I regret that I didnt realize that actually theyve got no power over you at school its all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge ...”

“I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.”

“A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...”

“People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in the...”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say”

“To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory”

“ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.”