The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

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.

You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

We do not want to merely “see” beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.

You don't know where you belong... You need something to swear to, As you fol-low blindly along; You just need to belong somehow.

While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in.

I never meant to be but a dreamer.

The car goes where the eyes go.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.

I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.