"I do not wish to escape to myself, I wish to escape from myself. I wish to obliterate my consciousness and my knowledge of independent existence, my guilts, my secretiveness."

"I’m not afraid to say that the U.S. government is the most violent institution in the world."

"The only way to be truly free is to be totally naked."

"I'm not a guru. I'm a poet. I'm a human being."

"The only thing that can save the world is the return of the feminine principle, the return of the goddess."