“But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.”

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."

“'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.”

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”

“The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep that in mind. Buy the ticket, take the ride.”


"I told my friend, “Only pu$$ies cry” After some thought, I figured, I’m a pu$$y"

“I was not proud of what I had learned, but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.”

“THE EDGE, there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”

"The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion."