The reason I was able to give up smoking was because of the computer. You couldn't lean a cigarette on a computer, like you could on a typewriter. So it just made it that much more difficult to smoke. So I quit.

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

I think there's a necessity for some attachment to the spiritual world and, in a way, people really have to have it.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

I start early in the morning. I'm usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can.

It’s hard to stay away from religion when you mess with acid.