Burning Man is like a big family picnic. Would you sell things to one another at a family picnic? No, you'd share things.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

I've learned never to expect people to be better than they are, but to always have faith that they can be more.