Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

I'm a relatively respectable citizen. Multiple felon perhaps, but certainly not dangerous.

I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting--on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.