I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as much as people take the plants. ... When you take one of these ancient, ancient hallucinogens you are locking in to the morphogenetic fields of all the people who ever took it.

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

What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.

The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.