I think when you die, you die.

The world amazed me, in that I saw it as I had when I was a child. I had forgotten the beauty and the magic and the knowingness of it and me.

Psychedelic drugs don't change you - they don't change your character - unless you want to be changed. They enable change; they can't impose it.

I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug.

The potential of the psychedelic drugs to provide access to the interior universe, is, I believe, their most valuable property.

It is essential that our present negative propaganda regarding psychedelic drugs be replaced with honesty and truthfulness about their effects, both good and bad.

Know what [drug] you're using, decide just why you're using it, and you can have a rich experience.

MDMA, it was beginning to be apparent, could be all things to all people.

If I had a vision of the perfect psychedelic drug and knew its structure, I'd make it. That's why I have a laboratory out there - to make things that haven't been made before.

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

I think that if you do an American movie it's important to earn some money, but in a stupid way, to be respected.

I'm handed a bunch of existing data. My job is to put that in the best narrative form. That is a puzzle I love to solve.

Successful people don’t wait for everything to be perfect to move forward.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.

I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.

If you fall stand tall and come back for more.

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.