“Now some people when they sit down to write and nothing special comes, no good ideas, are so frightened that they drink a lot of strong coffee to hurry them up, or smoke packages of cigarettes, or take drugs or get drunk. They do not know that ideas come slowly, and that the more clear, tranquil and unstimulated you are, the slower the ideas come, but the better they are.” PeopleKnowsWritingIdeasStrongClearSpecialDrinkDrugCoffeeDrunkSmokeFrightenedGood IdeasCigarettePackagesTranquil Book:If You Want to Write Source: If You Want to Write
“I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.” IfsThinkingIdeasShowsJobsCultureBlackWaterClassDrugMassFunctionMinoritiesGood IdeasDrug Taking Author:Terence McKenna
“I'd like to protect children, too, but... is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good... They've midwived a lot of good ideas... lot of great songs, you know? I think "Penny Lane" is worth 10 dead kids... I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it.” ThinkingKnowsMeanChildrenSaidIdeasDoneKidsSongSidesDarkSacrificeDrugMoonProtectGood IdeasPenniesLanesDark SideProtecting Children Author:Bill Maher
“The point is that any law that makes criminals out of 15 million Americans is probably not such a good idea. The point was that drug abuse isn't a criminal issue, it's a healthcare issue. And the money and manpower we spend prosecuting a surfer in San Diego might better be used fighting things that genuinely threaten our national health and safety. That was the point.” IdeasMightLawUsedFightingMillionsIssuesDrugAbuseSafetyCriminalsGood IdeasHealthcareSurferDrug AbuseSan DiegoHealth And SafetyManpowerProsecuting Author:Josh Charles
“If there was any drug that was to symbolize the people that ate our heroes, it seems like bath salts was a good idea. It's also a drug that, I think, is still funny to a lot of people.” PeopleIfsThinkingStillsIdeasSeemsHeroDrugGood IdeasSaltBaths Author:Seth Rogen
“Nowadays, my mood ungoverned, I'm free to think the most outrageous things, such as: might it not be a good idea to insist that drug companies give their preparations names that tell the user what they really do?” ThinkingGivingIdeasMightNamesCompanyDrugMoodPreparationGood IdeasUsersOutrageousDrug Companies Author:Will Self