The pharmaceutical industry is redefining and relabeling as medicinal problems calling for drug intervention a wide range of human behaviors which, in the past, have been viewed as falling within the bounds of the normal trials and tribulations of human existence.
Drugs Quotes
Mind-altering substances of one kind or another have been traditionally part of many cultures and have a place in shaping creativity. But I don’t think it’s something I would recommend to anyone nor that is necessary. I think it’s possible to get wherever you want to go without it. Perhaps sometimes it does short-circuit longer […]
Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, “That’s all the cocaine I sniffed.” We once tried to figure out how much money we spent on coke and alcohol. We were so disgusted that we stopped.
Far more money is spent annually on music then is spent on cocaine. It would be interesting to know enough about the human brain to know why.
I drink the wine of aspiration and the drug of illusion. Thus I am never dull.
If you can remember the ’60s, then you weren’t there.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix; angel-headed hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.
I can handle the juice (alcohol), but that stuff (marijuana) sent me outa my nut!
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 […]
There’s no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.
