I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.

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.

The world is full of countries that have only come into existence in the last couple of hundred years, or even in the last few decades, while changes to borders are happening every day.

It is costly when not abiding by God’s law

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

The shouting and opinion and jokes don't exist if there isn't first a story.

Sometimes, love was not enough.

We don't deal in absolutes. We deal in probabilities.

I'm afraid of happy people. They're chemically unbalanced.