Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.
On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.
Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.
Poetry is no more a narcotic than a stimulant; it is a universal bittersweet mixture for all possible household emergencies and its action varies accordingly as it is taken in a wineglass or a tablespoon, inhaled, gargled or rubbed on the chest by hard fingers covered with rings.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Books are a narcotic.
Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.
THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.
There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
"Drugs" are not necessarily narcotics. The narcotic is one type of drug and coffee is a drug. . . booze is a drug. . . many drugs. . . . They're all around us.
Storytelling has a narcotic power.
I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
I've jammed enough things up my own ass just trying to come on any amphetamine based narcotic.
Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.
