Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

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.

War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?

Guys don't do that when they go out. Guys don't wear outfits that feature the dong.

Some of the generals are saying, 'We're making progress. We are clearing an area.' But you really don't defeat the Taliban by clearing an area. They move.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.

We must learn to help those who deserve it, not just those who need it. Life responds to deserve not need

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.

Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.

If someone like Musalia [Mudavadi ] ruled Kenya, he would not be able to effect the radical changes I talk about.