“"Pat, did they get you for the embezzling?" Harmony asked.
"That, and the fact that I got stopped with a few pills in my car," Pat said. "Seventeen thousand pills, to be exact".”
The Late Child (1995)
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American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter 1936Related quotes
“I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar”
Source: Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

Alex Jones on Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN, 7 January 2013.
2013

Compare: "I saw you riding 'round in your brand new automobile/ Yes I saw you ridin' around, babe, in your brand new automobile/ Yes you was sitting there happy with your handsome driver at the wheel/ In your brand new automobile." Lightnin' Hopkins, Automobile Blues.
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat

“One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small”
White Rabbit (1965)
Context: One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.

“If you get massages, you'll never need another sleeping pill.”
Source: As quoted in Marilyn Monroe Confidential (1980) by Lena Pepitone and William Stedien p. 172