Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference. They would like to jump down into their stomachs and digest the food and shovel the shit out.

Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.

Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

All the filth and horror, fear, hate disease and death of human history flows between you and the Western Lands.

You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.