At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.

People are concrescences of ambiguity.

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.