At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on. – Robert Stone
The process of creating is related to the process of dreaming although when you are writing you’re doing it and when you’re dreaming, it’s doing you. – Robert Stone
I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in ‘Dog Soldiers,’ the process of that blow falling on America. – Robert Stone