You simply cannot understand psychedelic drugs, which activate the brain, unless you understand something about computers.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

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

The brain is not a blind, reactive machine, but a complex, sensitive biocomputer that we can program. And if we don't take the responsibility for programming it, then it will be programmed unwittingly by accident or by the social environnement.

We live our lives from A-Z, but forget the other 24 letters in between.

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.

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