I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.

History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

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

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.