You're immortal as long as you live.

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.

Behavior is math: Truth is found in the sum of its parts.

Failure is my specialty.

Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities.

The view from the window, particularly if you enjoy neon, is extraordinary.

If you concentrate on the present, you eliminate what happened yesterday and any apprehension of what may happen tomorrow.

Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

I don't think Americans would tolerate profiling.

The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.