A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

I want ... to consort with people whose emotions are not ... cold and standoffish.

Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you.