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

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.

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.

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

Let another man praise thee and not thine own mouth.

Don't put a limit on what can be accomplished.

Silence is the best response to a fool.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

Expiring for love is beautiful but stupid.

I looked like a boy for a long time. Now I feel like a woman.

Humor is, by its nature, more truthful than factual.

Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force.

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.