Marc Lewis > Quotes

“Even when they're not stoned, adolescents live in a world of ideation of their own making and follow trains of thought to extreme conclusions, despite overwhelming evidence that they're just plain wrong”
― Marc Lewis, Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs

“In the sporadic but relentless mudslide of self-contempt that characterized those years, I decided that, not only wasn't I good in the sense of being a good boy, but I also wasn't good in the sense of being a good person.”
― Marc Lewis, Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs

“Addictive drugs convert the brain to recognize only one face of God, to thrill to only one suitor.”
― Marc Lewis, Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs