If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

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.

God Only Knows the Issue.

People cannot accept their own evil if they do not at the same time feel loved, respected and trusted.

What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?

I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.

I'm terrified of learning lines, and I've always been terrified that I won't learn them.

My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.

My father was a physicist and also an activist. My first public protest was with my dad at Stanford. I came by all that honestly.

It’s your fault. I was defending you!” I blurted. He paused. “In protecting my honor, you exposed months of work. I should be flattered?

It's an old axiom of mine: marry your enemies and behead your friends.

I've learned an encyclopedia version of life from Oprah Winfrey.