What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the world is made of language. I can't say that enough. Whenever we get into these discussions about reality, or effects in space and time, we are operating outside this assumption that the world is made of language.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.