I don't take drugs as an escape trick, like some cheap magician on a cruise ship. I take drugs to find gold, like a greedy prospector in the backcountry. There are those who take drugs to be cool and those who take drugs to expand. I am not James Dean. I'm a balloon. And god has a mouth on my hole. And is blowing. And filling me up. And filling me up. One day I will explode. And then I will be free.

- Robert Sedlack, "The African Safari Papers"

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

- Aldous Huxley