I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.

...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...

I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.

I have to play every day in order to keep absolute control over my form.

Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking.

In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student.

I'm not a performer. If they're looking for entertainer-in-chief, I'm probably not the guy.

My father did everything for me. He was awesome.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I think I'll got to Thailand for a year and become a Thai boxer. I'm gonna train for a year.

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.