“LSD, yeah, the big parade — everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me.”
— Charles Bukowski, in a letter to Steven Richmond during the 1960s, published in Charles Bukowski : Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life (1998) by Howard Sounes
“The underground press was convinced that I was a junkie, an acid head. … But I don't do drugs. I don't like being fucked up. I've got enough bizarre chemicals floating around in my head. I'm just naturally like this.”
— Terry Gilliam, as quoted in Dreams : Gilliam interview by LegitCrit (May 1998)
“I had no inkling that the new substance would also come to be used beyond medical science, as an inebriant in the drug scene. Since my self-experiment had revealed LSD in its terrifying, demonic aspect, the last thing I could have expected was that this substance could ever find application as anything approaching a pleasure drug.”
— Dr. Albert Hofmann, in LSD : My Problem Child (1980), Ch. 1 : How LSD Originated
“I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.”
— Timothy Leary, in Chaos and Cyber Culture (1994)
“Acid allows you to walk through the door to an alternate reality, but most people have no idea how to walk back through.”
— Robert M. Pirsig in Lila : An Inquiry into Morals (1991)
“The effects of mescalin or LSD can be, in some respects, far more satisfying than those of alcohol. To begin with, they last longer; they also leave behind no hangover, and leave the mental faculties clear and unimpaired. They stimulate the faculties and produce the ideal ground for a peak experience.”
— Colin Wilson in Introduction to the New Existentialism, p. 88

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