I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.

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

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.