Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

Journalism, to me, is just another drug - a free ride to scenes I'd probably miss if I stayed straight.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt

And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Insanity is a legal term. Crazy is an art form.