It's a joke. Greed and the desire to take drugs are two separate things. If you want to separate the two, the thing you do is make drugs legal. Accept the reality that people do want to change their consciousness, and make an effort to make safer, healthier drugs.

Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

America is still mostly xenophobic and racist. That's the nature of America, I think.

The world that you can go walk outside and walk around the block. That's reality. The reality that's being talked about is something else entirely.

Seeing sound, the high order stuff that's not audible still affects how everything else behaves. There might be a visual metaphor for that somewhere.

What is life but being conscious? And good and evil are manifestations of consciousness. If you reject one, you're not getting the whole thing that's there to be had.