“If a man is to become fully himself - and this is not something that happens automatically just because you arrive at a particular age - he is going to have to give up some things in the process. Be it drugs, infidelity, childishness, lying, fear of intimacy, violence - none of these things contribute to being a man” IfsMenGivingHappensAgeLyingProcessViolenceParticularDrugGiving UpIntimacyInfidelityChildishness Author:Rod Stryker
“My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced states by which I can present the concept of a multiverse rather than a universe. Music and sociology are themes in my novels, also radical political trends; in particular I've written about fascism and my fear of it.” I CanStatesStoriesRealityPoliticalUniverseDealsNovelWrittenParticularDrugMajorsConceptsRadicalThemeTrendsFascismSociologyPreoccupationPsychoticMultiverse Author:Philip K. Dick
“The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.” LittlesStatesHappensCultureProcessPleasureConsciousnessCreativeParticularDrugSkillsInstinctThings HappenCreative ProcessMaking LoveMixturesCocktailsActs Of LoveUnconsciousness Author:Francis Bacon
“Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.” PeopleMovingSocialMemoriesDecisionStepsDyingCarStyleFrontsParticularTomorrowDrugDiseaseJudgmentErrorsBunchMottoMisuseLife Style Book:A Scanner Darkly Source: A Scanner Darkly
“The actual consequences of Plan Colombia are to devastate peasant communities, which have been driven to drug production. These peasants have no particular desire to grow coca, but their other means of livelihood have been wiped out.” MeanHas BeensDesireGrowsCommunityPlansParticularDrugConsequenceProductionsDrivenPeasantsLivelihoodColombia Author:Noam Chomsky