Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

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

The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

For all we know, we know nothing.

We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.

There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.