My critique of how we deal with drugs in society is just that - that we use these anecdotes to apply to everyone and the anecdotes are not representative.

We should decriminalize all drugs. The assumptions on which our drug policies are based are flawed.

High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

I am glad that people are trying to have a rational conversation about drugs.

Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

We need to continuously put pressure on politicians to do more, because they are happy just to do nothing—it’s easier to do nothing.

I don't want to be on the bandwagon of dogging any president or anybody in positions where they have all these different constituencies.

Is this your girl?" she asks, not waiting for an answer. "She's breathtaking.""You're my new favorite person, " Billie giggles.

My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had a kid like me, I would have those same expectations.

I tell my environmental friends that they have won. Every issue we look at from an energy perspective is now also looked at from an environmental perspective.

Sometimes when I make a movie, my main goal is to show the movie to one particular director.

Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his [mankind's] ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.

Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year

Yes, a Major would mean so much to me but I'm a great believer that if you work hard and in the right way, you will get what you deserve.

As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

I have never thought of writing as hard work, but I have worked hard to find a voice.

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel.