Millbrook Quotes

“To merely believe in another world”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

“Billy never showed up to help sell and Mike and I did almost everything wrong that could be done wrong in advertising and distributing the book. These were correctable errors”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

“Is it true that the ink with which this moronic rag is printed contains a slow-acting poison? I don’t know”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

“One good way to define veracity is to say it is what telling lies isn’t.”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

“The temptation to add fuel to fires is not the easiest one for me to resist.”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

“You can take the boy out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the boy. Or, as Gotama is said to have said: The conduct of the passions and attachments is the same as the conduct of a bodhisattva, that being the best conduct. (Guyasama Tantra)”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

“The French radical politician Alexandre-Auguste-Ledru-Rollin succinctly summed it up to a court trying him on the charge of joining in the aborted revolution of 1848: “I had to follow them,” he said. “I was their leader.”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

“(it all depends on the spirit which prevails)”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

“Decorations and music are the closest thing on a trip to “control board” functions. Every little variation has an enormous and immediate effect. Art is magic.”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

“Billy was somewhat out of it at that point, to be sure. Bill later told me that Billy had asked him, early in the trip, if he, Billy, was “really” Billy Hitchcock, who owned “this place.” “Boy, was I tempted,” Bill laughed when he told me about it, “but I patted him on the shoulder and told him of course he was.”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

“How true, sort of.”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

“He who controls the tape recorder controls the world.”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

“This is insane, I thought to myself. It was the first this is insane thought of a long series to come.”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism

“Everything was exactly as it should have been, beyond critique or analysis, as in a vision or a dream.”
― Art Kleps, Millbrook: A Narrative of the Early Years of American Psychedelianism