If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

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.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

Violence is a tool of the ignorant.

Within the perfect situation, not everything is perfect.

The river is everywhere.

It is better to dream big and get half of it, then dream small and get all of it.

If your product is great, you yourself do not have to be a great seller.

Every story starts with an idea, but it is the characters that move this idea forward.

If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.

Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose.