I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office.

If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.

You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

She smiled at me, and I never forgot it. Or more accurately, I always remembered it.

I used to hate looking at my markings. But the captain taught me they don't mean anything. Because I'm more than the sum of my mistakes.

The happily ever after thing. It's great when she marries the prince or whatever and they say that. But they just don't show the part where there's a revolution and they drag her to the guillotine.

To get God on your side is a great way to feel powerful.

I will absolutely give my [tax] return, but I'm being audited now for two or three years, so I can't do it until the audit is finished, obviously.

I think Twyla [Tharp] has a lot to say. The great thing about Twyla is that she continues to explore.

That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.

We built this [socialistic] society not for the curbing of personal liberty, but in order that human personalities should really feel free.

In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

The present indicative asserts something which is occuring while the speaker is making the statement.