"I can't trust those who sneer at us drinking down to the lees: That is the kind of thing which gets a bad name for religion."

"If you want to know God, look into the eyes of a lover."

"Resist your temptation to lie. By speaking of separation from God, Otherwise, We might have to medicate. You. In the ocean."

"Don't surrender your loneliness so quickly. Let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you as few human or even divine ingredients can."

"Go, tell the pious man to burn his prayer-book; his prayers are but hypocrisy."