"I'd like to protect children, too, but… is everything worth sacrificing to that? I mean, drugs have done a lot of good. They've midwived a lot of good ideas… lot of great songs, you know? I think "Penny Lane" is worth 10 dead kids. I think Dark Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. There, I said it."
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