Foods of the Gods”) - “After water, cocoa is the single healthiest substance you can put in your mouth. It can easily replace a number of psychiatric drugs for mood, plus it produces the same chemistry in the brain that occurs when we fall in love.

You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time.

I love the Amazon. I just wanna to cry every time I go there both for the majestic beauty and for the fact that it's going to be a museum exhibit in a couple of decades if we don't stop the deforestation.

Every herbalist has their favorite plant. Mine is Rhodiola rosea.

There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

Over the course of four rough, ego-shattering hours, the ayahuasca shows me that opening myself to love of Zoe and all others is the sure way to tap my deepest and most vital energetic reserves. The lesson is vivid, technicolor, indelibly imprinted on my psyche.