The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.

Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea. The mushroom itself is such a mercurial, elusive, Zen sort of personality that I never believe a word it says. I simply entertain its notions and try and sort through them, and I found that to be the most enriching approach to it.