Terence McKenna Quotes

I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.

Everything is as it was, I discover when I reach my destination, and everything has changed.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

I'm a poor person who has money.

I tell people all the time, 'Don't be fooled, because I am a man by day.'

Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.

Sometimes, I read that I'm this leftwing comic who just goes on about politics the whole time. Other times, I read that it's just surreal nonsense about crisps. It's both of those.

I'm a child of extremes.

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.

I would describe myself as eclectic: Bohemian in thought and conservative in action - or maybe it's the other way around.

I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

Everything I'm not makes me everything I am

I embody EVERYTHING from the Godly to the party.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.

I asked the Zebra, are you black with white stripes? Or white with black stripes? And the zebra asked me, Are you good with bad habits? Or are you bad with good habits? Are you noisy with quiet times? Or are you quiet with noisy times? Are you happy with some sad days? Or are you sad with some happy days? Are you neat with some sloppy ways? Or are you sloppy with some neat ways? And on and on and on and on and on and on he went. I’ll never ask a zebra about stripes...again.

You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.

I may be a real bad boy, but baby I'm a real good man.

I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.