"I'm not a revolutionary. I'm an evolutionary."

"I'm not a guru, I'm a poet."

"Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb."

"I am a spiritual person, and I believe in God, and I believe in the universe, and I believe in humanity."

"The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive."