...And eventually, he (Charles Manson) testified to an empty court, as Bugliosi had convinced the presiding judge Older, that Manson's hypnotic powers might convince the jury he was innocent.

I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you.

At the beginning of a decade when everything was beginning to seem possible, nothing seemed impossible.

Becoming is better than being

The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era--but nobody guessed back then that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.