The truth is that Leon, like a lot of those-maybe everyone-who trips on acid, never really came back. He recovered, but he was never the same guy again. He had lost something-innocence of hell. Acid presses a little button in your mind that should never be pressed

— Craig Ferguson

We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60s. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.

— Hunter S. Thompson

What do you want? Where's the goddamn ice I ordered? Where's the booze? There's a war on, man! People are being killed!

— Hunter S. Thompson