The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug.

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

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.

Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside.

The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and optimistic. No species could survive for even a generation under such program. This is not a program of eternal, or even long-range dominance. It is clearly an extermination program.