Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

You're immortal as long as you live.

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.