Ignorance screens the truth. It is on that screen that people paint pictures and write underneath their labels "god" and "not-god" and "theism.' and "atheism" .

The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?

It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is.

The basic Irrational Act which is renewed every moment of life, is not to commit suicide.

It is no ipso facto escape from dogma to assert (knowingly or not) non-dogmatism dogmatically.It is no ipso facto escape from credulity to believe in one's own scepticism.

It is our eyes that blind us and our ears that deafen us.

A thought for this Damocletian Age: the trouble with justice is it just isn't it?

Where would I be (and what would happen to me), if I could see all round me and above and below at once ?

How is it I have the strength to carry my own weaknesses?

All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black victims of the white man's American social system.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.

YOU HAVE A VAAGGGIINNAAA!

We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

Comandante Fidel Castro is the greatest revolutionary of the 20th Century, bar none.

Money is never more important than your body and mind, but you must work and support yourself. Never depend on others for your livelihood.

Reading a good poem can give me a far bigger kick than a novel. But it's not something I can keep doing. It would be like shooting up 10 times a day.