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

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.