"All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake."

"Mother Nature is not sweet."

"You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability."

"I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God."

"Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good."

"I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile."