c/timothy-leary
Timothy Francis Leary — psychologist, visionary, and fearless explorer of consciousness. From the hallowed halls of Harvard to the frontiers of the human mind, he dared to question the boundaries of perception and inspired generations to think, feel, and dream beyond the ordinary.
…take $10 million to do a Ku Klux Klan commercial. And now part of me resisted that, but then I remember something that Lenny Bruce once told me. Whenever he felt offended by humor, he'd try to step back and see where his psyche was affected by it.…
…shit. No one's ever made an offer of it. I can't say what... wouldn't do in a situation like that. Well, I once asked Donny Bruce if he would ever sell out by changing his material. And he said, well, it depends on what the author was. You know, $100…
…way, babies. I'm proud of that. The funny thing is, I have been working on a novel with a character who was inspired by Lenny Bruce. And some of the stuff that he says in the book, the character, I developed on stage myself, and when I write it, I…
…use any of those words. You had to accept whatever you experienced as real. And so in that experience, I communicated with Lenny Bruce in the grave. And then after the workshop was over, it continued to happen. But now I could use those words. And…
…thoughts. I might say, by the way, there's nothing wrong with making people laugh in a very provocative way. Socrates did it, Lenny Bruce did it, Marcel did it. As a matter of fact, some of the great philosophers of all time were those people that...…