We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

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.

She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident.

I'm afraid many women do choose the wedding over the marriage. It seems a steep price to pay, but it comes from a place of deep, sad longing to be loved and to have it proven that you are of value.

There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

You'll find truth in your looking glass, not on the tongues of men.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.

Being a rockstar is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be.