What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off.

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.

For all we know, we know nothing.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.