Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.

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 do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.

I think if you're going to get a tattoo, it should be significant, especially when it's all the way up your arms and your body.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

...that horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

[Hollywood] hates America.

Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

Hip doesn't really come into play anymore as far as I can tell.

I've read that same formula, but as an athlete I'm classified as phenomenal. You could look it up.