Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.

Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn't happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us.

I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!

Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!

Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.