Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

An addict never stops growing. Stupider.

If, after spending time with a person, you feel as though you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that person in the future.

I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.

A functioning police state needs no police.

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.