“Iggy Pop looks right at me as he sings the line: 'America takes drugs in psychic defence'; only he changes 'America' to 'Scatlin', and defines us mair accurately in a single sentence than all the others have ever done.”
“Street Crime is the only logical response to America's drug policy just as terrorism is the only logical response to America's foreign policy”
“The two men who have done the greatest harm to the world are Christ and Columbus. Christ taught us guilt and sacrifice, to live only in the other world, and Columbus discovered America and materialism.”
“America had many other discoverers besides Columbus, but he seems to have made more satisfactory arrangements with the historians than any of the others.”
“Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.”
“America, I don't think you can change history." All the same, his expression looked hopeful."Sure we can. Besides, who'd ever know about it but you and me?”