Anslinger's reefer madness did not caution even the seeds of efficient, intelligent, ruthless action ... The same goes for Hoover, sniveling Nixon, the whole miserable, wretchedly evil lot of them ... not a man among them who could have pulled off a successful coup in a banana republic.

I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.

My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.

I certainly wouldn't advocate anyone using drugs on a regular or habitual basis.

I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

In Mexico your wishes have a dream power. When you want to see someone, he turns up.

The dark Gods of pain are surfacing from the immemorial filth of time.