“I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.” DangerDrugEdgesAlcoholThank GodPillsOver The Edge Author:Johnny Depp
“You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to get you to stop destroying yourself and after a while it kind of sank in and I just cleaned up my act.” ThinkingTryingKindDrugEdgesAlcoholDisasterDestroyingFamily And FriendsVergeOver The EdgeDestroying Yourself Author:Johnny Depp
“I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics...What's happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we're getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought...occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like...because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsYearsRealReasonFeelingsEarthFallResultsDrugCreatingHappeningsAreasEdgesSpreadWideHandleInsanityMysticismFlatsConventionalIrrationalRationalityAdequateHereticInadequacyFalling OffZen Motorcycle MaintenanceEdge Of The World Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.” HumansMeanEndsFactsWalkingDrugTransformationEdgesPsychedelicShamanismWhat It Means To Be HumanPsychedelic Drugs Author:Terence McKenna
“Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.” WorldFeltPleasureBrainDrugRoseEdgesWarmAppealsGentleNecksEnteringVeinsConsumedExplosionsLoftyHeroin Author:Gus Van Sant
“I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.” WayWholeKidsGrewDrugSafeGrew UpTownsEdgesPunkSmall TownHogStraight EdgePunk Music Author:Daughn Gibson
“Actually, social drug-taking went kind of low-key for a couple of years. Probably because of AIDS, people got very conscious of their health. But it seems to be making a comeback. Just the other night I was at a party where people kept disappearing into the bathroom every few minutes. I'm glad I did all that in my 20s and that I'm done with it. And that I wrote about it in Postcards from the Edge.” PeopleYearsKindDoneSeemsNightSocialPartyMinutesKeysCoupleDrugLowsConsciousEdgesDisappearAidsGladBathroomComebackPostcardsLow KeyDrug Taking Author:Carrie Fisher
“There are an awful lot of things in the cut of street drugs that eventually make you sick. I reached a point where the skin around the edges of my fingernails used to hurt all the time. And it would peel away easily. Now, that must have been from some poison in the cut.” Has BeensUsedHurtCuttingStreetsDrugSkinsSickEdgesAwfulPoisonFingernails Author:George Carlin
“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.” DrugEdgesDesertHuntersVegasLas VegasLoathingGonzoFear And LoathingGonzo Journalism Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“The gentle sound of her words became the shushing of my blood in my head, and I listened, hovering on the edge of consciousness, bathed in the oblivion of whatever drug they had given me.” GivenSoundConsciousnessBloodDrugEdgesGentleOblivionHovering Author:Kim Harrison