Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

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.

We are all migrants through time.

Being healthy is sufficient proof of one having a strong character. The rest is subjective.

How to Commit the Perfect Murder" was an old game in heaven. I always chose the icicle: the weapon melts away.

There's nothing as 'Wrong' or 'Right'. It's the extent of how our mind can interpret the circumstances.

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

How rich is anyone who can simply see human faces.

Respect whatever it is [ Confederate flag] that you have to respect, because it was a point in time, and put it in a museum.

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

New York is the thing that seduced me.

Force cannot give right.