Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother.

A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far-away places without ever leaving your chair.

The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

Travel aesthetics should be just as comfortable and practical as they are fashionable.

Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming 'Hairspray.' It's so weird because I grew up watching her.