All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful.