💬 Quotes

"I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."

"He was already beginning to realize that the 'Moon' was not a single place, but a collection of worlds, as varied as the nations of Earth."

"It had been invented in the unconscious depths of the mind, and it had been created to serve a purpose that was, for the moment, beyond human comprehension."

"He was a star-child, fresh from the cosmic womb, gazing upon the world he was destined to shape."

"Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way."

"It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!"

"To be happy, you have to be able to enjoy the present, and that means not thinking about the past or the future."

"Don't you hate it when your life doesn't make sense?"

"I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it."

"Clocks slay time... He slay it now and then and back in the silence when the clicking stops and runs down, there is something more terrible than time, more terrible than the ticking."

"I am not is. I am was."

"Caddy smelled like trees."

"You cannot stifle the truth, nor can you silence the past; it is a ghost that sits at the table even when the chairs are empty."

"He was like a man who has lost his shadow, moving through a world that no longer recognizes his silhouette."

"We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold."

"Buy the ticket, take the ride... and if it occasionally gets a little heavier than what you had in mind, well... maybe chalk it up to forced consciousness expansion."

"There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning."

"He was a freak, he was a wild man, he was a massive presence that could not be ignored—a monster of the mid-century, a head-tripping, bad-vibes junkie."

"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of 'history' it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

"The only way to prepare for a trip like this is to dress like human peacocks and get loaded on every form of speed, acid, and booze we could find."