“If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.”

“There is no design. The universe isn’t kind or cruel. The universe is vast and indifferent to our desires.”

“If believers in God don't honor the cries and claims of the poor, we don't honor him, whatever we profess, because we hide his beauty from the eyes of the world. When we pour ourselves out for the poor—that gets the world's notice.”

“It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.”

“I think it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone famous to come from here, because everyone around here is insane.”

“And life was too short to play chicken with something as important as the person you loved.”

“Our biological body itself is a form of hardware that needs re-programming through tantra like a new spiritual software which can release or unblock its potential.”

“We expect more from technology and less from each other.”