"Culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people's convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, big business, and government."

"The psychedelic experience is a way to transcend the limitations of the ego."

"The universe is an intelligence test."

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

"The world is not as it seems. It is much stranger, much more complex, much more beautiful, and much more terrifying."