I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

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 think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.

You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing.

I believe that things happen for a reason. I think there are no coincidences in life.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

No one fights with more principle and passion than Michael Gove.

Through vigilance, restraint and control the wise will construct and island that no flood will overcome.

There aren't very many women of color in positions of power, period. Much less on television.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.