It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.

In cyberspace things are built out of light.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.