Human history is a Gaian dream.

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.

Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn't have to work too hard to get it.

Any woman can open her mouth and speak to a man. It takes a special woman to open her mouth and strengthen a man.

A zombie amusement park sounds like fun, but the health code violations alone are enough to turn your stomach.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

I don't think it's a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don't think my life is that interesting.

I love my job so much, and not everyone can say that and I recognize how lucky that is.

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

At the beginning of anything out of the ordinary, the mass of the people always dislike it.

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.