I'm sitting there tripping with this cat [Dr. D.] who is this far into sensation and tripped out on it, and rich enough to keep himself out of the crazy, and occasionally he would throw me philosophical questions that were like teaching questions.  He asked me - "Well, what do you see this system to be like?  Do you see it as a closed system or an open system?"  I was not too swift, and I was thinking of the earth as an ecosystem, and bringing in raw materials from somewhere else and stuff like that, and sort of fliply said, "a closed system!" He grabbed his chair by the arms and half rose in his chair, and his entire corner of the office, became Nazi-field-marshal-Rommel-in-the-field-looking, and he looked at me and said, "Well, if it's a closed system, why don't we just eliminate all you niggers right now?"

[Dr. D. said,] "The way to rule the world is not to be the King or Emperor or Pope.  The way to rule the world is to be in charge of the Evidence Bureau."