A birth is a death. Everything you treasure, and believe in, and love, and relate to is destroyed for you when you leave the womb. And you are launched into another modality, a modality that perhaps you would not have chosen but that you cannot do anything about.

We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening