I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.

Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit.

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

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

You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.

The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?

The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.