“.. buried soberly, as simple as a child of the people, as I am.”

“Truth is simple. Very simple – so simple that a child can understand it. In fact, so simple that only a child can understand it. Unless you become a child again you will not be able to understand it.”

“My position on pornography is quite simple. You can argue about Penthouse or Playboy or things of that ilk. But child pornography, a picture of a child engaged in a sexual act, is a photograph of a crime and you cannot argue about that. It is, per se, illegal, illicit and immoral. It is unfortunate that my work is taken up by people with whom I am not allied.”

“I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.”

“I'm a Voodoo Child, Voodoo Child,
Lord knows I am a Voodoo Child”

“I am ready to obey as a child; — but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.”

“I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.”

“I am not one and simple, but complex and many.”

“If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.”

“I am a simple Buddhist monk — no more, no less.”