“Damn it, man: anyone who can treat another human being as an object for target practice is stuck even further back in the infantile stage than somebody who’s frightened to move on from the masturbation phase and go to bed with a girl!”

“The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human – human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.”

“This is a strange -- and rather alarming -- realisation. For it clearly implies that masturbation is one of our highest faculties that human beings have developed. Many animals masturbate -- but never without the presence of another animal, or some similar stimulus. A human being can masturbate in an empty room: a triumph of pure imagination.”

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”

“It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.”

“I'll accept commissions from anyone who isn't frightened by my proposals.”

“My father…was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.”

“A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.

But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.

So does gossip.”

“No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance.”

“Miracles are to come.
With you I leave a remembrance
of miracles: they are by
somebody who can love
and who shall be continually reborn,
a human being.”