“Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history.”
― The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
― The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”
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“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.”
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“Insults are the last resort of an insecure man with a crumbling argument,”
― The Boy
― The Boy
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