The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the momentum of the historical process, to halt nuclear proliferation, germ warfare, infantile 19th century politics, all these things. It cannot be accomplished through a frontal assault upon it by political means.

The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.

Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.