Catalyzers Quotes

#1. If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.

Terence McKenna

#2. There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz.

Robert Wyatt

#3. Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

Vijay Seshadri

#4. How do you tell if someone is alive? You check for breathing.

Markus Zusak

#5. We now reflexly, and dishonestly, unmask all virtue as hypocritical, all beauty as Kitsch; and have become so jaded with simplicity and wholesomeness that we find Good insipid and crave the sharp stimulus of sin.

Bruce G. Charlton

#6. 1a) Never throw shit at an armed man.
1b) Never stand next to someone who is throwing shit at an armed man.

Larry Niven

#7. I'm the kind of girl who always has a boyfriend.

Georgia Salpa

#8. I think fine dining is dying out everywhere ... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

Anthony Bourdain

#9. It wasn't that it had been too long without a girl. It was that it'd been a lifetime without the right one.

Rachel Van Dyken

#10. Sometimes we can spend years without living at all, and suddenly our whole life is concentrated in a single moment .

Oscar Wilde

#11. Your ability to navigate & tolerate change & its painful uncomfortableness directly correlates to your happiness & general well-being

Amy Poehler

#12. ...please remember that leaving your baby alone protesting for more fun with you while you get dressed is not the same things as abandonment. Similarly, leaving your baby alone protesting for more fun when she needs to sleep is not neglect.

Marc Weissbluth