Barefoot conducts his seminars on his houseboat in Sausalito. It costs a hundred dollars to find out why we are on this Earth. You also get a sandwich, but I wasn't hungry that day. John Lennon had just been killed and I think I know why we are on this Earth; it's to find out that what you love the most will be taken away from you, probably due to an error in high places rather than by design.

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

The Empire is the institution, the codification, of derangement; it is insane and imposes its insanity on us by violence, since its nature is a violent one.

The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for.

He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

In a one-party system there is always a landslide.