“I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me.”
“Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know, I've been using it for years”
“I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.”
“I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.”
“I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.”
“His sister had been sent down to the village to ask Mistress Garlick the witch how you stopped spelling recommendation.”