Briggs > Quotes

“Hey, why do you have to be so pretty?”
“Ah, I know—I’m so mean!”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“Is he a lover of music, women, and naughty little kitty cats?”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“I wasn’t sure if they’d misinterpret my memento mori metaphor: remember that you have to die, but after I said, “Winter is here to say, ‘Have fun,’” Debbie and Maria beautifully bawled like I pierced an arrow of love into their beautiful song.

I wrote a poem and left it on the counter:
"Life's a treasure in a castle. It isn’t what you see but the people you meet. Amor Fati!"

”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“I spent almost every day in the cancer wing because cancer patients were almost always depressed. Making them happy was a microdose of love.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“She said, “Guys don’t clean a pretty things apartment or make breakfast because—most guys care about one plus zero is equivalent to—hit and run.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“I had a sleepless two nights in the hospital. Whenever I shut my eyes, the underworld entered my mind. I couldn’t get the image out of the dark side of my blue, melancholy moon.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“She said, “I know you love me because you make me feel like a bird who probably smiles after successfully shitting on someone below.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“John intensely said, “Why would you be a good boyfriend if you dated my daughter?”
I told him I’m kind like the sky and provide love without wanting love in return. I said, “Is-is-isn’t that how love muh-muh-makes one plus one equal happiness?”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“I took acid with Robby, then asked Debbie on a date the next day. If I hadn’t taken LSD, would I have found enough courage to ask Debbie on a date? Because I’m a man from Mars who learned how to rise above tar, surrender to a scar, and not retaliate vengeance against innocence in the future from a punisher in the past.
I do not know You, although I see You, and I know it’ll be alright.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“You can be a multi-millionaire and depressingly live in a mansion alone, or you can be a happy man in poverty.
(Which one is more intelligent?).
”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“I would’ve forgiven his fire that burned his Hollywood sign to the ground, but hindsight is 20/20, and now I can only look forward and create a new, better day. The art of probability means you did the best you could with what was given to you. The Universe has a plan, and if it doesn’t, are you listening with your third eye or blind to The Universe’s energy? Does everything happen for the best?”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“Maria said, “You are a goddamn Siamese cat connection.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“Robby taught me to call myself a cute booty because he thought my booty was goddamn cute. He also taught me The Art of Reverse Psychologing Yourself, which catapulted me high into an upward trajectory.
An hour before the date, I reverse-psychologied myself by desiring my fear—trading I fear with I hope.
By focusing on the bad, you let fear inside your mind. By focusing on the good, you desire and let hope inside your dome. But if you desire your fear, why worry about rain?”
― Briggs

“If you mess with a monkey, man, you gotta’ pay to play.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“She said, “Wanna’ know a secret?”
I nodded. Yeah.
She said, “You are the tikka to my masala.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“Constructive manipulation made me look healthy, fit, and beautiful, but I guess if you’re healthy, you’re wealthy. Don’t we all want to feel good? What else do we need from our small, minuscule life?
The answer is:
1 + 2 = I see You and appreciate You.
Eye-to-double-eye at humans, a flower, a tree, a pink sunset, the moon, a dog, a star, the sun, The Universe: I see You and appreciate You.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“Being around people made me realize reality is a fish in the sea who doesn’t know it is swimming in water.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“Lightning and thunder doesn’t only bucket rain. It also buckets a magical symphony of negative oxygen ions, man. If I were you, man, I’d hope it rains harder than it ever has. If it does, your neutral ions will increase oxygen absorption in your brain and help you see a flower about to blossom and evolve in a garden, man.”
I thought about that, smiled, and then asked if he could drive me to the date.
“Walking shuts down your amygdala, dude—shuts down your thinking, dude—increases neutral ions, dude—makes you more creative, dude—the higher the ceiling, dude—the more you’ll see the unseen and have a wonderful date, dude.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“ If you asked, “Why?” I would’ve said, “Because.” You can choose between non-fiction and fiction, but they never touch.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“Yeah, someday,” he said, “I am going to be a psychedelic shamanic guide for terminal cancer patients and alleviate end-of-life anxiety. I want people to remember me as someone who unshackled the burden of fear from humanity and—you know, the fear of death has every fear inside. If you’re not afraid to die, you can swim in a sky of diamonds and rely on nothing but your heart so you can smile like a child—ecstasy—all around. How funny is it that we all have imaginary problems inside our minds? Eye-to-double-eye, man. It’s easy to solve the answer to any problem if you see a beautiful flower looking at you and imagine it thinking, I see you.”
(I see you, too).”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“We live in a backwards popsicle. The more you desire a positive, the less positive you obtain. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction, like every thought has an equal and opposite reaction. If you want your popsicle to taste delicious—(because I sure do)—then why would you surrender to a song about the unknown? Everyone has a negative leech inside their mind, so why not identify with negativity to be boundless at the ability to look at the popsicle?
(Fuck, I love popsicles).
If identifying with negativity rains and floods neutral ions of positivity into your consciousness, can you let anxiety in your mind to say, “Hey?”
― Briggs

“Waiting was a meditation. I was calm after I thought, I hope I have a horrible interview. I hope her dad doesn’t like me. I hope I do not get the job. I hope I look like a fool. I smiled like I was ready to kick my right leg like a woof.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“The mind’s a dreadful thought.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“Debbie is darn diggity, man. A honey, man. You got yourself a Montgomery spliff.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“Hey, particle of dusty debauchery. What do you think about my purpose when everyone sees sorrow in the sky? Someone says, ‘Stay inside.’ To be afraid? To put fear in my mind? A daisy thinks, I’m cute, so look at me! I am so cute! A cutie patootie booty!”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“I wiped a tear from right eye and put it on my heart.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“First of all, I am the manic monkey in charge of bananas. Second of all, I am going to take on hell with a super cute pink squirt gun. And third of all, a blind man once said, ‘I can see.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“Money compounds like being kind is part of a multiplication equation: 1 x 10 = 10 which compounds to 10 x 10 = 100.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“She said, “How long have you been here?”
“Long enough to feel Italian.”
She gave me a serious look.
I said, “A little over a week?”
“You’ve been here for over a month.”
Uh-oh. Papa got caught.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1

“I muh-muh-make you happy because I think everything will be gone tomorrow, so to-to-today is useless if you don’t remind yourself, Whuh-whuh-winter is here to say, ‘Have fun.”
― Briggs, The Acid Actor: Volume 1