Quotes About Leary

Dr. Leary was sentenced to 37 years imprisonment in 1970 for alleged possession of one cannabis cigarette, a crime then usually punished in the States by six months. He was released in 1976, amid a carefully orchestrated rumor campaign claiming he had become an informant for the FBI. He is now engaged in the manufacture of computer software. LSD has become, like heroin, a monopoly of the CIA and the Mafia.

Science fiction was never my thing. I have no interest in it.

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

Rose had a kitchen that was so completely alphabetized, you'd find the allspice next to the ant poison. She was a fine one to talk about the Leary men.

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

Leary suggested that self-esteem is more like an internal gauge, a "sociometer" that continuously measures your value as a relationship partner.

I love French stuff. Mmmm, french fries.

Only people like us still kept a watchful eye on Lud's Drum, because dimensional barriers in and around the town had been dangerously weak ever since Timothy Leary dropped a heroic dose of LSD and peyote there and tried to perform a remote exorcism on the Pentagon.

There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.

I really like 'Batman.' Not the TV show, but the dark 'Batman.'

There are those who have condemned Leary as a liar, a sellout, an opportunist, and most of all, a raging egomaniac; but the truth is, he was simply Irish.

To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back [to life] during a Republican administration.

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do what Alpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out of a job overnight.