I think that actually represents one of the central problems with psychoactive drugs is you can think that they're helping you, but that's very different from them helping you. And I think that's actually one of the most important reasons to try to use them as infrequently as possible—it will aid that self-assessment because if you're constantly in the throes of it, you can easily lose track of who you are and how you relate to who you used to be and where you're going.

I think we're already in a dystopian pharmacological future ... There's some enormous percentage of the American population taking SSRI antidepressants. I think it's something like 15% of American women ... It seems like it's a lot more in New York. In New York, it seems like it's a solid third of women that I meet take SSRIs.

We live in a capitalist society for better or worse where productivity is prized above all else, and anything that interferes with productivity is not good in our society regardless of how it makes you feel.

When you take ketamine, it can give you a delusional sense of possibility. The aperture of possibility expands dramatically, and suddenly, all of the restrictions that you once thought existed disintegrate.