It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

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

Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion.

Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

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.