Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

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.

And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

I'll take any story if it's good.

Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.

It's always been hard for me to do without sounding precious or too corny or whatever.

The fool will upset the whole science of astronomy.

Reality is the only obstacle to happiness.

My philosophy is that you sell things for more than you bought them.