"I'm glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, "My God! I love everything." Yeah, now if that isn't a hazard to our country … how are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we're all one?"

“It’s a great feeling to be wanted but it’s more exciting to be inaccessible.”

“When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal rather than a consequence of scientific research.”

Source : "Climate Science: Is it currently designed to answer questions?". Richard Lindzen's remarks for Program in Atmospheres, Oceans and Climate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arxiv.org. September 19, 2008.

“Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.”

Source : Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

“God has given us the Disciplines of the spiritual life as a means of receiving his grace. The Disciplines allow us to place ourselves before God so that he can transform us.”

Source : Richard J. Foster (2009). “Celebration of Discipline: The Path To Spiritual Growth”, p.7, Harper Collins

“I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both.”

“You judge people as you meet them.”

“In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.”

“When you're looking for someone, you're looking for some aspect of yourself, even if you don't know it ... What we're searching for is what we lack.”

Source : "Sam Shepard opens up". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.