This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

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.

We are born ready to love and be loved. It is our birthright.

This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

What Ive learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someones life.

My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

In part because they had no choice, right? If you were a slave, you did what the master said. And they said to worship: "You're going to worship with us."

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.