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"I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?"
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"Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile 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. But nobody can handle that other trip-the possibility that any freak with $1.98 can walk into the Circus-Circus and suddenly appear in the sky over downtown Las Vegas twelve times the size of God, howling anything that comes into his head. No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs."
"I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know."
"I don't intend for this to take on a political tone. I'm just here for the drugs."
"Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important."
"Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it."
"And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine."
"Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities."
"To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric."
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"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."
"Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people."
"My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world."
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