To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.

The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

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

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!