Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others’ butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they’ve known for a lifetime.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Where there is hope there is life.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

We only have one life and two choices: sadness and regret for a past we cannot change or happiness for every moment we can choose how to live.

It was the freedom to experiment that made this experiment called Freedom possible.

An imperfect human heart, perfectly shattered, was her conclusion. A condition so common as to be virtually universal, rendering issues of right and wrong almost incidental.

If you want to be the best, be the best, if you are not the best, pretend you are

New York makes one think of the collapse of civilization, about Sodom and Gomorrah, the end of the world. The end wouldn't come as a surprise here. Many people already bank on it.

When Death laughs, no one else does

I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.

By being vulnerable, either with yourself or in the presence of another person, that’s where all growth and ultimate well-being comes from.

You're not allowed to be an eccentric in the world, you have to fit it.

What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.