George Carlin

George Denis Patrick Carlin (May 12, 1937 – June 22, 2008) was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, actor and writer/author, who won five Grammy Awards for his comedy albums.


 * I did LSD and peyote in the late Sixties, before I got into cocaine. That was concurrent with my change from a straight comic to the album and counterculture period, and those drugs served their purpose. They helped open me up. You know, if a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. Acid and peyote were that way for me. Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20110101093028/http://www.friendsofcannabis.com/directory/index.php?option=com_alphacontent&section=13&Itemid=58&cat=75


 * Fuck the drug war. Dropping acid was a profound turning point for me, a seminal experience. I make no apologies for it. More people should do acid. It should be sold over the counter. Acid finally moved me from one place to the other; allowed change to take place - change that had been rumbling underground all this time, but which I still needed to have happen to me rather than initiate."
 * Last Words, p. 142