The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.

In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.