“Remember, Japan has never accepted Freud and Christianity. They’ve never been guilty or embarrassed about sex. No problem with homosexuality, no problem with kinky sex. Just matter-of-fact. Some people like it a certain way, so some people do it that way, what the hell. The Japanese can’t understand why we get so worked up about a straightforward bodily function. They think we’re a little screwed up on the subject of sex. And they have a point.”

Michael Crichton, Rising Sun

“But because out faith does not need the doctrine of constellations and aeons, of the primal waters and universal mothers and similar symbols, that does not mean that such doctrines are lies and deception.”

Hermann Hesse, Magister Ludi – The Glass Bead Game

“Ours isn’t the only religion in the world.”

Peter Matthiessen, At Play in the Fields of the Lord