I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
—M.C. Escher
I hate to advocate drugs, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
—Hunter S. Thompson
When, at some point in our lives, we meet a real tragedy—which could happen to any one of us—we can react in two ways. Obviously, we can lose hope, let ourselves slip into discouragement, into alcohol, drugs, and unending sadness. Or else we can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force.
—14th Dalai Lama
Reading is socially accepted disassociation. You flip a switch and you're not there anymore. It's better than heroin. More effective and cheaper and legal.
—Mary Karr
Saving someone's life is like falling in love, the best drug in the world.
—Paul Schrader
Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
—Lily Tomlin
I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.
—Margaret Cho
[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog—it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.
—Roy Blount Jr.
Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.
—Trey Parker and Matt Stone
The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
—Unknown
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
—Rudyard Kipling
When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.
—Ken Kesey
The field of Western medicine has become literally nothing but medicine. Doctors are on their way out, to be replaced by self-serve pharmaceutical vending machines.
—Grey Livingston
In medicine, as in statecraft and propaganda, words are sometimes the most powerful drugs we can use.
—Sara Murray Jordan
Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.
—Norman Cousins