The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.

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

We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.

Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

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.