Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.
Ordinarily it would take me about fifteen minutes to get a hallucination going," wrote Feynman, "but on a few occasions, when I smoked some marijuana beforehand, it came very quickly.
It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.
Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
I kinda like messing with perception a little bit. Kind of what drugs do sometimes, and drinking. I mean, you know, you mess with your mind a little bit to see life from different angles. Within reason, if you can handle it.
For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.
I told [Bill Gates] I believed every word of what I said but that I should never have said it in public. I wish him the best, I really do. I just think he and Microsoft are a bit narrow. He'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
Just hit the blunt one time and see if it don't change your perception on whats important in your life.
I wanted to create something really aggressive and psychedelic
'Doctor Who' rewrites your brain because at first when you watch it, you think, 'That doesn't make sense.'
Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equally wonderful.
I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.
