Coffee, one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world, contains a plethora of naturally-occurring compounds, including several classes of antioxidants.

You know the expression, "It's not personal; it's business." We sneer at such rot. All business is personal, all the time.

Mistletoe, the same plant you kiss under at holiday time, may be an effective aid against certain types of cancer.

On the other side of the spirit veil, I spend more than a little bit of time researching the hallucinogens. I personally believe ayahuasca is also the greatest natural healing agent, period.

Fire walking is an act of faith. I don't know why it works. I don't know why people don't die doing it. I found it very exhilarating.

A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

While there are a great many agents in nature which boost libido and enhance sexual function, chocolate alone actually promotes the brain chemistry of being in love.

Every herbalist has their favorite plant. Mine is Rhodiola rosea.

As state and local laws mutate and change in favor of greater tolerance, perhaps cannabis will find it's proper place in the home medicine chest.

You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just have to roll with it.

People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!'

I go to church every Sunday, which is like going to the gas station once a week and really, really filling up.

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for.

Because of the flexibility that community colleges afford, many students do not have to choose between an education and fulfilling other responsibilities - they can do both.

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

I never understood what rules I was supposed to learn, and what rules I was supposed to break

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

I'm more comfortable in heels than I am in sneakers.