The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

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 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.

I used to keep my college roommate from reading my personal mail by hiding it in her textbooks.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.

They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

I actually went to film school, but I didnt like it. Im basically self-taught.

Science is like an inoculation against charlatans who would have you believe whatever it is they tell you.

Writing is both my expression to the world and my way to hide from it - you get who I am without actually seeing me.

Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town.

Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on.