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 […]
Drugs Quotes
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!
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.
