You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

What can you pay for the way a man lives? What can you pay for what a man is?

They did type me as a horror writer, but I have been able to do all sorts of things within that framework.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.