There is an immutable law that wherever cops congregate, more cops must join in.

What I want to say here is that there is a place beyond control and beyond concern that people can go, where the values and the needs of everyday life change completely. Where what matters is moment-to-moment survival to avoid mind pain.

I was a degenerate, with an insatiable capacity for perversion. Incapable of change. I could do anything except not drink.