Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

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.

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

When America doesn't act, bad things happen

I don't have a girlfriend. No, I don't. I haven't had a relationship in years, actually. But yeah, I'm still looking. It's kind of nice to be looking for a home at the same time.

I don't have storyboards, but I have some very strict rules, like not moving the camera.

I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.

I was a fixer, a builder - an inventor - ever since I can remember.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers.