The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.

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.

My knees will not tremble at the sight of a King but I will kneel down before a man of humility.

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

Learn graceful ways of saying no and of pointing out that this pressure to do something is not in line with most people's wishes.

Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.

Talk shows are proof that conversation is dead.

I have more artistic control in a smaller show. But it doesn't really matter. Sometimes you can have the smallest role in the smallest production and still make a big impact.

The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.

I've always been worried about the band but I've got to the point now where I think it's time to start thinking about myself a bit more.

Short putts are missed because it is not physically possible to make the little ball travel over uncertain ground for three or four feet with any degree of regularity.