It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

The world was simply and sheerly divided into 'the aware', those who had the experience of being vessels of the divine, and a great mass of 'the unaware', 'the unmusical', 'the unattuned.

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways...while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness.

Not long after I published my first book, I quickly found I was terrible at being interviewed.

Radical Chic, after all, is only radical in Style; in its heart it is part of Society and its traditions.