What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.

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.

I study nature so as not to do foolish things.

Honour and I would have to create our world, live by our own rules. My family wasn't ready for her just yet. I didn't know if they ever would be.

Pride could be painful sometimes. And right now, hers was suffocating

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.

There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.

Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.

I feel my absolute best physically, mentally and spiritually when I'm surfing every day.

Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.