Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

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

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

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.

The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.