The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.

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

I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.

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