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

"The drugs don't do it. You do it. The drugs are only a key to the door in your own mind."

"The ultimate goal of all human striving is to achieve a state of ecstatic union with the divine."

"The future is a river, and we are its navigators."

"The world is a stage, and we are all actors in the play."