We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.

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.

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?

Hermits have no peer pressure.

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by.

To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.

Think of a star. A star burns its very substance to give light to others. You need to be like a star.

If I have a mission in life, it is to convince people that everyone is morally motivated - everyone except for psychopaths.

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

The average person would have quit at the first failure. That’s why there have been many average men and only one Edison.

The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.