Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

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.

I stopped playing football because I'd done as much as I could. I needed something which was going to excite me as much as football had excited me.

We are not ourselves anymore, we've lost a little something.

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint.

I spend a lot of time saying to myself, "Well, is that really what I like to do? Is that really something that makes me happy?" and letting go of the things that don't make me happy.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.

The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

Anybody with money can put on a KISS show, but they can't be KISS.

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.