Amphetamine, what a wonderful, wonderful thing. Marvellous. If you just take it, half a five-milligram pill in the morning to the Bodleian, say, half in the afternoon. Bang! You can't speak in the evening, but then you don't need to, if you've been married a bit. Magnificent. Really wonderful. It just does everything it's meant to do. Raises your intelligence, raises your capacity for interest, and as long as it's not mixed... mixed with barbiturate, you're just wonderfully involved. Interesting.

[Q] Amphetamine, this is?

Yes, dexamphetamine. Dexedrine, it used to be called.

[Q] And does it really do all these things, or does it? Is it, you know, more the illusion of it?

No, it really does all these things. But I now understand that it does all those things if you are a chronic depressive. If you're perfectly alright and normal and should be alive, probably a very bad thing to take.