We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

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.

No matter how hard you try to be a good person, to make choices that will lead to success, nothing is promised. Even the good and the innocent are damned from time to time.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

I love Russian, because it's delicious to speak like that. If you have to speak French, you can also do that, because it's not difficult. Accents are a cool thing to do. And I love doing them.

I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid.

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.