The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

The LSD experience usually changes forever the worldview and basic life-orientation of all who experience it

I believe it’s true to say that everyone who has experienced LSD or another psychedelic would look on that experience, especially the first one, as a major life-changing event.

The first note in that octave [of our cultural transformation], the do, was the discovery of LSD by Albert Hofmann in 1943.

The NSA may, or may not have rejected the invisible secret operative application form I never even bothered to have sent over to them. I'll never know...

Promise me, you will love me forever.

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

SEAL training was a great equalizer. Nothing mattered but your will to succeed. Not your color, not your ethnic background, not your education and not your social status.

There is no weapon in the end as difficult to overcome as the tongue of an enemy.

What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're really selling is your life.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

People have very strong opinions about how their national icons should be played.

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.