To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.

Commitment is a curse if it interferes with righteousness.

It hurts to be lost. You go native because it's better to be wrong than to be lost.

I go to movies, go out with friends, go to car shows. I have a zoo.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

All who live to a good old age have a genius for sleep.

I know that if we allow ourselves into the gridlock of tribalism, we're in trouble.

When I work, it can be a 16-hour day.

Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.

The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.