Mind Altering Quotes

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering.

They call me the trippy king.

'Psychedelic' means mind-expanding.

One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

I have the craziest dreams when I'm digesting a massive amount. It feels so real, it's psychedelic.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not just a well-told story, but a dramatic recalibrating of what it means to have a mind-and a soul.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.

Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.

Somebody came and directed a show at my high school. I approached it with sort of the sensibility - "Oh, I know that music. I'm going to go audition." I ended up being in it and I sang and it was mind-altering - to me, to my parents, who had never heard me sing like that. It put a stop to everything else that I was doing - every sport that I played, every instrument, it was all dropped because nothing felt like that. I feel really lucky that I found my passion at that point. There are people who are adults who don't know what their passion is and go through life doing "a job."

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.

I have confused ideas of deity, heavily influenced by mind-altering years of reading science fiction, that do not often trouble me, but one thing I know for certain, and have known since the age of five or six, is that I really can't stand the God of Abraham. In fact, I consider him to constitute the pattern to which every true asshole I have ever known in my life has pretty well conformed.

I'm too high, but I ain't left the ground.

You can see the walls roar See your brains on the floor Become God Become cripple Become funky

I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics.