Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

Society is cancerous and bureaucracy is its cancer.

Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.

I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.