"The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture."

-- Ralph Metzner

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“Things are never as bad as they seem.”
“People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.”
“Directors who have inspired me include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola and Ernst Lubitsch. In art school, I studied painters like Edward Hopper, who used urban motifs, Franz Kafka is my favorite novelist. My approach to film stems from my art background, as I go beyond the story to the sub-conscious mood created by sound and images.”
“Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way.Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our current situation may not be critiqued. We have not only lost the right to criticise, but the courage to do so.Why is modern China lacking in great writers? Because all the great writers are castrated while still in the nursery.”
“You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'”
“Few things are more negative than thinking positive for no reason.”
“Yeah, I can see why beautiful cars are compared to beautiful women... they usually belong to someone else.”
“Heaven doesn't make this life less important; it makes it more important.”

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