There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I want to have any part of. It's some kind of gnostic demon. It's some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected.