Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

No one on earth is "functionless". The problem we usually have is that functions of people are being displayed in the wrong positions! Change position!

The laissez-faire attitude to science education has resulted in a disaster exemplified by the fact that more young people are opting for media studies than physics.

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time.

Sometimes I think fiction exists to model the way God might think of us, if God had the time and inclination to do so.

I was born where there were no enclosures.

Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I'm trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I've fought to obviously get all of them approved.

I am trying to present objects in the simplest way possible, and I don't want to supply too much context.

Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again