"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson

"Avoid all needle drugs - the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon." - Abbie Hoffman

"Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years." - TALLULAH BANKHEAD, Tallulah

"Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!" - THOMAS DE QUINCEY, Confessions of an English Opium Eater

"If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in and drop out." - TIMOTHY LEARY, speech (1967)

"What is dangerous about the tranquilizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones." - MAX LERNER, The Unfinished Country

"Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs." - Tomlin, Lily

"'If God dropped acid, would he see people?'" - Wright, Stephen