My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

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.

Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.