Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.

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 danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.