The mission of DNA is to evolve nervous systems capable of deciphering the mission of DNA.

There are no bad drugs. There's simply stupid people who don't know how to use them.

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

I think that marijuana makes you stupid but sensual. I've watched many of my friends and loved ones become more erotic and dumber - just going around with a glazed expression on their faces from their last orgasms to the next - and found them really quite boring.

Half the things I've done are wrong, mistakes [unintelligible]. The moratorium on pot and LSD a year ago is ridiculous. I shouldn't have done that. I make a blunder at least one out of two times I come to bat.

I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.