Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.

You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.

The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great.

The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.

You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.