You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.

Any kind of consciousness that is not related to the production or consumption of material goods is stigmatized in our society today.

All politicians should be required to drink Ayahuasca 10 times before taking office.

I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.

If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.

People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.

I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.

Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns.

However high we climb in the pursuit of knowledge we shall still see heights above us, and the more we extend our view, the more conscious we shall be of the immensity which lies beyond.

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue.

Not careers alone make people happy. A successful professional life and joy in work are certainly a part of it, but I couldn't be happy without a fulfilling private life.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

I'm totally anonymous until I open my bloody mouth and people recognize the voice.

I'm sure I'm a schizophrenic. The problem is I can't tell the difference between which one's which, which one is the real me.