Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

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.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

Couple stares, couple texts, couple dates. Couple 'I think that we're ready's couple 'I think we should wait's

I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.

We must be careful what we read, and not, like the sailors of Ulysses, take bags of wind for sacks of treasure.

In America, it takes about two weeks in the limelight for the whole country to think you've been around for years.

We do not kill an Iraqi.

It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.

Here is the reality - as I've been saying for longer than I can remember, Scott Walker is a mediocre county executive who has risen far beyond his talents.

I am definitely a person of color.