"I feel acutely aware of how young I am. In a way that is good. It's productive. It makes me realise that I should be growing as a writer and a person."
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"You got to stop asking your politicians how they are going to do this or that..."
"A doctor’s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open."
"Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind."
"I don't think it should be a big deal who you love."
"My attitude has always been if you get better and you see success, that should motivate you to even work harder, so that's kinda how I approach everything."
"Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate."
"Freedom is not the right to do as you please, but the liberty to do as you should."
"Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf."
"A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all."
"Free should be the scholar - free and brave."
"Education should be as broad as man."
"A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars."
"The highest Beauty should be plain set."
"But foreign should not be defined in geographical terms. Then it would have no meaning except territorial or tribal patriotism. To me that alone is foreign which is foreign to truth, foreign to Atman."
"A good painting should be the equivalent of a good deed."
"What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things."
"This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience."
"All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion."
"A book should teach us to enjoy life, or to endure it."