- Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.
- I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.
- If you don't like what you're doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.
- There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-term memory, and I forget the third.
- Think for yourself and question authority.
- My advice to people today is as follows: 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.
- Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
- The universe is an intelligence test.
- You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
- Science is all metaphor.
- People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the sunday school teachings.
- If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
- "Drop Out" meant self-reliance, a discovery of one's singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean "Get stoned and abandon all constructive activity."
- We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. They've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
- The mark of a basic shit is that he can’t mind his own business.
