Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.

It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off.

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

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