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.

Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when it thinks you're ready.

Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach

We are all wired into a survival trip, now.

These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.

Fishing from a boat seems like dilettante bullshit - like hunting wild boar with a can of spray paint from the safety of a pick-up truck

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.