I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!

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 was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.

Famine was the mark of a maturing agricultural society, the very badge of civilization.

We are chameleons and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blessed facility.

Main Street has too much debt already. It is simply a bonanza for speculators who can borrow the overnight money and then buy something that they can speculate on.

One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.

Courage, determination, and hard work are all very nice, but not so nice as an oil well in the back yard.

Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire.

And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.