A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

How do we fight back? By creating art.

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

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.

Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it Stropharia cubensis, or is it the creation of Edward Teller? This is an unresolved problem.