I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.

How do we fight back? By creating art.