For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

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.

Elle, what happened to your prudish behavior?” Elle laughed. “It took a back seat when I was given a mate so hot that he could cook bacon on his abs.

I got to keep moving, I've got to keep living and I've got to keep working.

Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

I think The Exorcist was the hardest work I've ever done

Melinda was mine 'til the time that I found her holding Jim, loving him.

Wisdom lies not in possessing knowledge - which quickly becomes outdated - but in perpetually seeking it.

I own the soft impeachment.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.

Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.