The winter passed as slowly and peacefully as a boa constrictor digesting a valium addict.

One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

But the center can be a harmful place for one who has lived so long on the edge.... Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.

If kissing is man's greatest invention, then fermentation and patriarchy compete with the domestication of animals for the distinction of being man's worst folly, and no doubt the three combined long ago, the one growing out of the others, to foster civilization and lead Western humanity to its present state of decline.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

Our purpose is to consciously, deliberately evolve towards a wiser, more liberated and luminous state of being.