"I had known don Juan for a whole year before he took me into his confidence. One day he explained that he possessed a…"

"Don Juan disclosed very little about his personal life. All he said was that he had been born in the Southwest in 189…"

"My inability to arrive at an understanding seems to have been traceable to the fact that, after four years of apprent…"

"Don Juan believed the states of non-ordinary reality to be the only form of pragmatic learning and the only means of …"

"In our conversations, don Juan consistently used or referred to the phrase "man of knowledge"... A man of knowledge i…"

"Anyone can try to become a man of knowledge; very few men actually succeed, but that is only natural. The enemies a m…"

"He refused to talk about the enemies. He said it would be a long time before the subject would make any sense to me. …"

"If he gives in to fear he will never conquer it, because he will shy away from learning and never try again. But if h…"

"How can he defeat his third enemy, don Juan?...He has to defy it, deliberately. He has to come to realize the power h…"

"The friend who had introduced me to don Juan explained later that the old man was not a native of Arizona, where we m…"