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"Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns."
"It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords."
"Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books."
"They can do anything we can't stop them from doing."
"I don't drink, I don't take drugs, I don't smoke."
"He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie."
"The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak."
"Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position."
"I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine."
"If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism."
"Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are."
"But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out."
"I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise."
"The more a book is like an opium pipe, the more the Chinaman reader is satisfied with it and tends to discuss the quality of the drug rather than its lethargic effects."
"Minor keys and drugs don't make a roller skate jam."
"Food is my drug of choice."
"That is not a drug. It's a leaf."
"I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."
"Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let's put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal."
"This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice."
