“On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam."”
Saturday 15 April 1967 (p. 137)
The Orton Diaries (1986)
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On pub culture in Goa, as quoted in " Pub culture needs to be controlled: Tourism minister http://www.livemint.com/Politics/RfmbkAe4cjK98SuqoAshSM/Pub-culture-needs-to-be-controlled-Tourism-minister.html", Live Mint (13 July 2014)
Book I, ch. I, Departure - Passage from Plymouth to Madeira - Description of that Island.
A Voyage Round the World (1777)
“The problems were very deep. They were nothing short of changing the way we look at reality.”
Donovan: "We are all one shining Being" (1998)
Context: When I was 14 or 15 I wanted to be a protest singer like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. My father was a socialist and worked with the unions. I thought change was to change the government and to change from one system, capitalism, to socialism and to make the poor of the world happy. But when I opened the book The Way of Zen by Alan Watts and I opened up the Diamond Sutra, and Lao Tsu’s Tao Te Ching, I realized that the problem of suffering was much deeper than governments and social problems. The problems were very deep. They were nothing short of changing the way we look at reality. Therefore I became a teacher, or a reflection of the teachings. Phil Ochs, the great protest singer, said I had given up protest, and Joan Baez said to Bob Dylan, “He’s given up protest.” But what I had given up was looking for the answer in social change. The change was to be a spiritual change. The suffering was coming from an erroneous view of reality...
“I did not get on the bus to get arrested. I got on the bus to go home.”
Quoted in Rita Dove, "Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution," http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html Time (1999-06-14)by kurtis
“I don't want a fat mexican woman beating the crap out of my son.”
(When asked about getting a baby-sitter for his kids) http://www.marksfriggin.com/news00/12-18-00.htm.
On his living at a Zen center, as quoted in Los Angeles Times (24 September 1995)
On the 2009 Mangalore pub attack, as quoted in " Pub culture against Indian ethos, must stop: Ramadoss http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Pub-culture-against-Indian-ethos-must-stop-Ramadoss/articleshow/4054517.cms", The Times of India (30 January 2009)