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

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.