Dennis Mckenna Quotes

#1. The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Charles R. Swindoll

#2. Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

Dennis McKenna

#3. I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.

Chris Lilley

#4. Ayahuasca is a symbiotic ally of the human species.

Dennis McKenna

#5. You monkeys only think you're running things,

Dennis McKenna

#6. The American people, in their own families, they understand that you have to do that. You have to make the tough decisions. You have to get your budget. You have got to put it in order. And they expect their elected officials and their leaders to do likewise.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#7. I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that all experience is a drug experience. We're all on drugs all the time, largely because we are MADE of drugs

Dennis McKenna

#8. Are you looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis

Thomas Harris

#9. It is the desire for irreverence as much as anything else that brought me first to poetry. The need to make fun of authority, break taboos, celebrate the body and its functions, claim that one has seen angels in the same breath as one says that there is no god.

Charles Simic

#10. It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.

V.S. Pritchett

#11. I have nothing against romanticism. I'm all for it. I'm helpless in the face of romance.

Bill Nighy

#12. If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

Nicolas Chamfort

#13. All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

Dennis McKenna

#14. Life is creative. It makes it up as it goes along.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#15. As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger

Dennis McKenna