Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.