Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

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.

Tell Evil men of your sins and they will use it against you Tell a sinner of your sins and they will pray for you

I love horror movies, so it's a real treat to be able to work on a television show of that genre, and have it actually be really, really good.

Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.

There can be no immaculate conception of socialism.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

Life is so short - if you feel something for someone, tell them.

Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?

If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

I am very moody when I cook. I cook according to the way I feel at the moment. A little of this, a little of that, and almost always a coupcon of garlic. I never proceed by the rules.

Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used.