The universe is an intelligence test. - Timothy Leary

He's basically a romantic comedian. …. He was a government agent entering our bedroom at midnight. We had every right to shoot him. But I've never owned a weapon in my life, and I have no intention of owning a weapon, although I was a master sharpshooter at West Point on both the Garand, the Springfield rifle and the machine-gun. I was a howitzer expert. I know how to operate these lethal gadgets but I have never had and never will have a gun around.

"At the sensory level I am the divine receiving station...a two-legged, trembling-tissue, Jodrell Bank radar telescope, dancing, grumbling, sniffling Geiger counter"

"But there's an added feature. Each generation, I...return. Each time carried onstage, blinking, puking, bawling, bewildered by the bizarre novelty of each new drama, untutored in the language of the new script (did she say her name was Mommie?)"

"Öğretmenler, soyut kavramlar icat etmeye ve yaratmaya hazır olan "düşünen" sınıfın genç üyeleri ile sık sık sorun yaşarlar. Bu sınıfın yalnızca mevcut sembol tekniklerine maruz kalması yeterlidir. Sembolleri gerçekten anlamaya hazırdırlar böylece onları geliştirebilirler."