Rick Strassman Quotes

#1. The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.

Rick Strassman

#2. As I accepted my death and dissolution into God's love, the insectoids began feeding on my heart, devouring the feelings of love and surrender. They were interested in emotion. As I was holding on to my last thought - that God is love - they asked, Even here? Even here?

Rick Strassman

#3. Patriotism is not endlessly bragging that out country is the best; rather it is wanting one's country to be the best that it can be and helping it to be that best, which is a very different matter.

Robert Stam

#4. If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.

Veronica Roth

#5. Many of us would never have tried psychedelics if it weren't for Leary's popularizing them.

Rick Strassman

#6. Aaron was one of the few Jewish volunteers in our study, and I felt a certain kinship with him at that level.

Rick Strassman

#7. The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone doubt, after reading our accounts ... that DMT elicits 'typical' alien encounters?

Rick Strassman

#8. Your childhood, said Yackle coaxingly, as if she could smell his thoughts. As if she could sniff out those passages he hadn't chosen to retail at drink parties.
Her words lulled him. The past, even a bitter past, is usually more pungent than the present, or at least better organized in the mind.

Gregory Maguire

#9. Love is the perfect safety, or the perfect weapon.

Bryant McGill

#10. Till our next date?"
"Oh, yeah," he says, making a "well, duh" face. "All bets are off on our next date.

Kelley R. Martin

#11. No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts.

Paul Bryant

#12. The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time actually turned researchers against studying endogenous DMT. The discoverers of endorphins, in contrast, won Nobel Prizes ...

Rick Strassman

#13. I became a better person because of the time I spent with him, knowing him. I never got a chance to tell him that.

Terry McMillan

#14. Being raised a Jew in southern California in the 1950s and 1960s, my religious training emphasized learning the Hebrew language and Jewish festivals, history, and culture. We also remembered the Holocaust and supported the newly formed Jewish state of Israel.

Rick Strassman