It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

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.

I feel free when I see no one and nobody knows my name

I don’t just want to do the right thing. I want to WANT to do the right thing.

Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

Till swollen with cunning, of a self-conceit, His waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting, Heavens conspir'd his overthrow.

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

You may choose your mate, but you cannot deny someone else the right to choose their mate.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.