All drugs of any interest to any moderately intelligent person in America are now illegal.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

If he who breaks the law is not punished, he who obeys it is cheated. This, and this alone, is why lawbreakers ought to be punished: to authenticate as good, and to encourage as useful, law-abiding behavior. The aim of criminal law cannot be correction or deterrence; it can only be the maintenance of the legal order.

Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility

In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.

It taught me, at an early age, that being wrong can be dangerous, but being right, when society regards the majority’s falsehood as truth, could be fatal.