The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.

Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.