DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.

The human brain is the god of technological innovation.

There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

And I want to thank all the women that support me. I have wonderful support systems from women of all types who seem dedicated to the notion that Terence McKenna can always be improved. I'm extremely grateful for that. The frontiers are enormous in that dimension.

Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.

We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.