One cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized.

My advice to myself and to everyone else, particularly young people, is to turn on, tune in and drop out.

Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life.

At one point consciousness-altering devices like the microscope and telescope were criminalized for exactly the same reasons that psychedelic plants were banned in later years. They allow us to peer into bits and zones of Chaos.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.