"We had two bags of grass,seventy-five pellets of mescaline,five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers ,laughers... Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls...But the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge..."

"We had two bags of grass,seventy-five pellets of mescaline,five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half-full of cocaine and whole galaxy of multicolored uppers, downers, screamers ,laughers... Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls...But the only thing that worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge..."