“I actually took them all on quite handily, although I learned when I came to study the issue that I was completely wrong. I also came to believe that the war on drugs is one of the last vestiges of institutionalized racism in our society.”
“The real drug, I came to believe, was love.”
“I loved when Bush came out and said, 'We are losing the war against drugs.' You know what that implies? There's a war being fought, and the people on drugs are winning it.”
“I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.”
“Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.”
“To me it was real war and my life was at stake, and I believe that all those clandestine spy games we played as children helped when the Occupation came.”