No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jewelled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake’s illustration for a canal in grassy Eden : huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great […]
Drugs Quotes
There’s no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.
I worry about people who reach into the stuff of life and twist it to their will. I worry about people who act simply because they can. If they lived in crumbling castles – their hair standing up on end and their voices howling in maniacal laughter – we’d know them to be mad scientists. […]
Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
I’ll die young, but it’s like kissing God. (On his drug addiction)
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!
Now, like, I’m President. It would be pretty hard for some drug guy to come into the White House and start offering it up, you know? – I bet if they did, I hope I would say, ‘Hey, get lost. We don’t want any of that.’ (speaking to a group of students about drug abuse)
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment.
I don’t think we need to be subliminable (sic) about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.
I received a letter from a professor at Harvard, Timothy Leary, inviting me to participate in a mind-expansion program using something I’d never heard of – LSD. I was intrigued. If I hadn’t been in the middle of a hit play, I would have joined his experiment. I wanted to expand my mind.
