"Like Adam, formed from clay, children are formed from the biological material of which they are made or by the hands of their parents."

“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”

“I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can analyze its availability.”

Source : "Alexander Shulgin obituary" by Mike Power, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2014.

“Before you touch anybody you have to make sure that you are as pure as possible. If you don't purify yourself of all the inner duality, negativity can prevail through the flow of the psyche.”

“More needs to be done to take the fight to the enemy and secure our borders against the terrorist threat. We need more protection on land, sea and air.”

“There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.”

“Privilege is invisible to those who have it.”

Source : "'Privilege is invisible to those who have it': engaging men in workplace equality". Interview with Fiona Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2016.

“... he preferred his own madness, to the regular sanity. He rejoiced in his own madness, he was free. He did not want that old sanity of the world, which was become so repulsive. He rejoiced in the new-found world of his madness. It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying.”

“Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.”