It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.