I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions. More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote. I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th centuryspace-atomic age.
Charles Bukowski, as quoted in "This Floundering Old Bastard is the Best Damn Poet in Town", interview by John Thomas in LA Free Press (1967)