“There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.”
Andre Malraux
“Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.”
Jean Cocteau
“He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.”
Anais Nin
“It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.”
Antonin Artaud
“Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent the mountains and everything that exists.”
Henri Frederic Amiel
“It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?”
Bill Hicks
“Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.”
Tom Robbins
