What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process to go in this direction.

Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.

It's the impossible become possible and yet remaining impossible.