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.

I think when you die, you die.

Tram’s road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path

Time travelers tend, as a group, to have a lot of hobbies.

Every step in the progress of this study has tended to obliterate the technical barriers by which logicians have sought to separate the inquiries relating to the several parts of man's nature.

This is the real unwritten rule: You don't want what you know you shouldn't. And I haven't just broken that rule. I have wrecked it, smashed it, and still... And still I want.

It is said that government is a necessary evil, but it is far more evil than it is necessary.

I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.

And of course there must be something wrong In wanting to silence any song.

Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.

If I'd understood back then that a guy could be in love with another one, it would have happened. But I didn't come to that realization for a few more years and then it was too late for Jimmy and me.

I'm sick of this. Call me what you like, say I'm without honor, I don't care. I'm not getting on any more horses to whack you people with a stick.