The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

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.

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 long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

No God, no messiah, no prophet can grant your wishes – it is only through your own efforts that you can make your wishes come true – it is only you who can grant your own wishes.

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.

The lowest wisdom of the wise is greater than the highest wisdom of fools.

I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

I love you Mark..." Courtney, PoR. I love you too Courtney..." Mark, PoR.

No sir. The first thing is character.

When the Soviet Union walked out of arms control negotiations, and refused even to discuss the issues, the San Francisco Democrats didn't blame Soviet intransigence. They blamed the United States.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

Ever notice that nothing changes the color of paint like putting it on a wall?