What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

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.

The irritating question they ask us -- us being writers -- is: "Where do you get your i

If you want to learn what someone fears losing, watch what they photograph.

'Mid pleasures and palaces through we may roam Be it ever so humble there's no place like Home.

Bankruptcy is like losing your virginity. It doesn't hurt the next time.

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.

I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.

I have always loved the law. It is the very foundation of our great country. It's the exceptional foundation of America.

In fact, I don't even know myself. That is the big secret of the story. That there is no story.

A woman's greatest glory is to be little talked about by men, whether for good or ill.