I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

Shamanism is about shape shifting. Shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

For all we know, we know nothing.

I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?

We are all cells of a much larger body, and like the cells of our own body it is hard for us to glimpse the whole pattern of the whole of what is happening, and yet we can sense that there is a purpose, and there is a pattern.