He does not need opium. He has the gift of reverie.
I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back.
It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
My dad has had a rare form of leukemia since I was in about 7th grade. But they've come up with some amazing drugs since then and he's doing really well today.
People don't go to see things in the theater for the same reasons that I do. And movies are about mass audiences. And so moviegoers are going for a different kind of drug than for a certain kind of literary quality.
It [the Brady Bill] is not a panacea. It's not going to stop crimes of passion or drug-related crime.
I don't need drugs to make weird music.
I did mostly alcohol. There were drugs, too - pills - and there was a danger that I would go over the edge. I could have. I thank God I didn't.
Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.
Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.
I'm always nice when I do drugs. But, you know, I'm nicer on the drug called "writing. "
I've had plenty of friends tell me that their first time doing stand-up, they do well, and then they tank for a while after that. Kind of like the first time you do a drug, you're like, "Huh! This is pretty darn good," and then you spend all your money trying to get the same high.
Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.
It is very rewarding to serve the country by helping President Bush work to reduce the drug problem.
Brenda [Carlin] went into therapy and I soon joined her. First we put the drugs behind us, then we began serious work on our relationship. And, in time, we got well together. She just drove through a hotel lobby. Now, that's bottoming out.
I'll bring the red wine, you bring the ludes.
To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.
The war on drugs has failed in West Africa and around the world
Kylie Minogue - she's so great. You'd love her if you met her. Everyone would. In a way I wish everyone could, to see what a person she is. She's so sweet and no bull and really funny, man, really funny. The Rolling Stones are like a weight around your neck. All that. . 'you're not meant to rock after you're 30. . . you've got to die in a car crash or of a drug overdose.
I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.