Schaffners Quotes & Sayings

With the solitary exception of the Eskimos, there isn't a people on Earth who doesn't use psychoactive plants to effect a change in consciousness, and there probably never has been. As for the Eskimos, their exception only proves the rule: historically, Eskimos didn't use psychoactive plants because none of them will grow in the Arctic. (As soon as the white man introduced the Eskimo to fermented grain, he immediately joined the consciousness changers.) What this suggests is that the desire to alter one's experience of consciousness may be universal. — Michael Pollan

I didn't kill myself
when things went wrong
I didn't turn
to drugs or teaching
I tried to sleep
but when I couldn't sleep
I learned to write
I learned to write
what might be read
on nights like this
by one like me — Leonard Cohen

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together. — Matt Taibbi

Oh, no," Simi said. "We can't have that. Where you going, Mr. Meanie-Pants? You don't hurt people then run. That's just rude." She looked back at Caleb. "Can the Simi barbecue him, or is he on the 'No Simi' eat list? — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment. — Peter J. Carroll

You can print a book, unfortunately you can't print the audience — Benny Bellamacina

I buy records - vinyl. I have a record player at home. — Amber Heard

There is assuredly no more effectual method of clearing up one's own mind on any subject than by talking it over, so to speak, with men of real power and grasp, who have considered it from a totally different point of view. — Thomas Huxley