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

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.

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.

I think when you die, you die.

To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.

Usually the opposite of what we fear is our greatest fear.

There are some things that you experience with God that you'll never be able to articulate this side of heaven.

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

There were no weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Hussein was not involved in the September 11th attack.

Never before has the world been so desperately asking for answers to crucial questions, and never before has the world been so frantically committed to the idea that no answers are possible.

Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless.

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments… And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving.