Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.

We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.