Freedom will cost you the mask you have on, the mask that feels so comfortable and is so hard to shed off, not because it fits so well but because you have been wearing it so long.

And the best way to quit being concerned with yourself is to be concerned about others.

It takes years for average persons in the nagual's world to remove themselves from their involvement with themselves and be capable of seeing the wonder of it all.

Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

The current model is global suicide. We need a revolution. Revolutionary thinking. Revolutionary action. Natural resources are becoming more and more scarce.

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.

When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

The ruckus is different experiences you go through throughout your life which builds your ruckus points up - your tolerance. You've got to have a high tolerance for dealing with stuff all the time.

Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us.

What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fishlike smell; a kind of not of the newest poor-John. A strange fish!