“You see, the penis, it's so graceless, wouldn't you agree? When it's cold and shrivelled up, it looks like W.H. Auden in his old age; when it's hot, it flops and dangles about in a ridiculous way; ...”

“When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remission beyond the human, that pain is to be endured and fades, if it fades, only with time, then God b...”

“Trees were not hard, irritable things, but discreetly orgasmic beings moaning at a level too deep for our brutish ears. And flowers were quick explosive orgasms, like making love in the shower.”

“Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.”

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”

“Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with ...”

“Leaderships about transforming lives and making a difference through innovation and purpose, grounded in values and integrity”

“i have learnt to live to please myself first instead of other people, when I lived to please others, I lay late in bed with my eyes open in the dark wondering who I was, now I know myself”

“Pedestals aren't safe...one wrong move and a nasty tumble is sure to follow. Humility is a great grounding tool.”

“You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.”

“Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. ”

“See yourself in everything and everything in yourself. This is Oneness.”