I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a skepticism towards substances that alter consciousness.
Fran Lebowitz's quote highlights her preference for a grounded reality over the altered perceptions that come from hallucinogenic drugs. She suggests that even the slightest expansion of consciousness is unnecessary for her, indicating a belief in the sufficiency of her natural state of mind.
In practice
During a discussion about substance use and its effects on perception.
Your responsibility as a parent is not as great as you might imagine. You need not supply the world with the next conqueror of disease or major motion picture star. If your child simply grows up to be someone who does not use the word "collectible" as a noun, you can consider yourself an unqualified success.
You should make it hard on yourself to write so youβre easier to read.
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
Night falls fast. Today is in the past.
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates.
I am not questioning your honor, I am denying its existence.
As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
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