Norman Ohler

Like you couldn't go crazy, I would say, on crystal meth.

You just have like, you're just very much awake, but you don't have like crazy thoughts that you can't, you know, evaluate anymore.

So it's a very, very, very different drug.

But taking that, of course, made me understand better how a soldier feels in the tank, taking it.

That's the good thing about being a writer.

You can take drugs on the job and no one will cancel you for it.

Amphetamine.

Amphetamine.

Speed.

Basically speed.

The legend has it that On the Road was written in two weeks on speed, basically without sleeping and using an endless paper roll in this typewriter.

So he was just writing.

And I can imagine that you can write a hell of a lot on amphetamines.

And I do it sometimes, but...

I don't do it a lot, you know, so I can take amphetamines and have a really good time and write like 20 pages.

But then the next day, I wouldn't do it anymore.

But he decided, okay, for 14 days, I'm going to do it.

Philip K. Dick was an amphetamine writer.

And also, I think if you take a lot of amphetamines, you get into kind of psychedelic spaces at a certain point in time where you start hallucinating.

And like if you write, you know, Blade Runner, maybe it helps you.