“You see, there's the way things seemed and then there's the way things were and one is so often the total reverse of the other.”

“There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.”

“There, did you think to kill me? There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea.Ideas are bulletproof. Farewell.”

“It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.”

“LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.”

“There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”

“Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely...”