If you want to make order, put your own heart in order, and, having put one's heart in order, one can regulate the family order.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in a new manner under the influence of marijuana, and these apprehensions have remained valid in years of normal consciousness.

When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred.

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.