La drogue idéale

. . . the need for frequent chemical vacations from intolerable selfhood and repulsive surroundings will undoubtedly remain. What is needed is a new drug which will relieve and console our suffering species without doing more harm in th elong run than it does good in the short. Such a drug must be potent in minute doses and synthesizable . . . it should produce changes in consciousness more interesting, more intrinsically valuable than mere sedation or dreaminess, delusions of omnipotence or release from inhibition . . .

—Aldous Huxley, "The Doors of Perception" in The doors of perception; and, Heaven and hell. 1954. Perennial Library, Harper & Row. 1956.