So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.

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 can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering.

I had a mixture, my father was a career army man and my mother was a writer.

The only way that you can ever know if something is of value to you is by the way it feels as you are receiving it

I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing.

There was a time when I was 312 pounds. And I've been all different weights.

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.

One of my major preoccupations is the approximation between what I say and what I do, between what I seem to be and what I am actually becoming.

The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past.