Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

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.

The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments

When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

There was so much – so many tests and tasks, so many tiny referenda.

It's very hard to tour.

I'm going to be very happy, and then do everything I have time to do after that.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

I have no television - I hate it.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

We would give anything for what we have.