The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.

The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.

This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.