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.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.