I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.

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.

Love isn't something to be given on whim, or shelved when it isn't convenient. Love is gift, a promise, and a belief in another person. If you treat it as such, it will fulfill you always

I'm wondering what to read next." Matilda said. "I've finished all the children's books.

Sometimes people don’t want the truth. Sometimes the truth is worse than a lie.

It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.

To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.

I just lay in my room for days ... weeks.

When you realize you're essentially you're God, there ain't nothing on earth more powerful than you, you can do anything you want.

Who is an artist? I say we take a title. No one gives it to us. We make our lives.

Try to exist even under hardest conditions! That is the effort which deserves the applauses most!

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.