Leary Quotes

My godfather Timothy Leary coined the phrase `question authority`, it is one of my favorites. To question our government is the most important thing people can do right now in the US.

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing`s more disgusting than a guy who steals another person`s ideas and tries to claim them as his own. Stand-up comedy is supposed to be "Here`s the world through my eyes." It`s supposed to be your observations, your thoughts and views on life. When you snatch little pieces of other people`s lives and try to palm them off as your own, that`s more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.

(Gilberto Gil wears a sober suit and tie these days, and his dreadlocks are greying at the temples. But you soon remember that, as well as the serving culture minister of Brazil, you are in the presence of one of the biggest Latin American musicians of the 60s and 70s when you ask him about his intellectual influences and he cites Timothy Leary.) Oh, yeah! ... For example, all those guys at Silicon Valley - they`re all coming basically from the psychedelic culture, you know? The brain-expanding processes of the crystal had a lot to do with the internet.

There isn`t much wrong with most of those summerhouses that a really good hurricane wouldn`t cure (and) when it comes it may do for the Hamptons what Mrs O`Leary`s cow did for Chicago.