Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

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

At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.

Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.