Drugs Quotes

Opiate, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard.

Our generation was right about civil rights; we were right about Vietnam; we were right about poverty. Unfortunately, we were wrong about drugs.

Apothecary, n. The physician’s accomplice, undertaker’s benefactor and grave-worm’s provider.

Many contemporary artists experiment with hallucinogens in the hope of creating work as mysteriously haunting as those verses of the Kubla Khan that Samuel Coleridge allegedly composed under the influence of laudanum. Sooner or later, however, they realize that the composition of any work of art requires a sober mind. Work that is carried out […]

The last time somebody said, ‘I find I can write much better with a word processor.’, I replied, ‘They used to say the same thing about drugs.’

I don’t do drugs, I am drugs.

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!