Mike Jay

“Napoleon, apparently, had expressed disapproval of trial by jury on the grounds that 'it might be inconvenient to a government'. Fox had replied that 'the inconvenience was the very thing for which he liked it'.”
― Mike Jay

“What's wrong with getting high? The nineteenth-century debates over euphoria, in which drug-induced pleasure became suspect or pathological, have been succeeded by a twenty-first century neuroscience in which positive mood is seen as a symptom of raised dopamine or serotonin levels.”
― Mike Jay, Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind