There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

Why should Ben Johnson give up his gold medal from Seoul, for example, when the Beatles remain revered for Sgt Pepper - an album that owed as much to banned substances as anything the Canadian did.

Heroin may be bad, but it sure as hell hasn't hurt my CD collection.

Just say no, no, no, no, no ... you'll get a much better price.

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

What is dangerous about tranquillizers is that whatever peace of mind they bring is a packaged peace of mind. Where you buy a pill and buy peace of mind with it, you get conditioned to cheap solutions instead of deep ones.

Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

It is in the interests of our society to promote those things that take the edge off, keep us busy with our fixes, and keep us slightly outnumbed and zombie-like. In this way our modern consumer society itself functions as an addict.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Drugs are a carnival in hell.

I don't drink or do any drugs. I never have and I never will. I don't need them. I'm a black woman from the land of the free, home of the brave, and I figure I don't need another illusion.

Did you know that the White House drug test is multiple choice?

I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three and a half weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet!

No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country.

Before you let yourself go, be sure you can get yourself back.

Drugs are a bet with the mind.

Why is marijuana not legal? It's a natural plant that grows in the dirt. Do you know what's not natural? Eighty-year-old dudes with hard-ons. That's not natural. But we got pills for that. We're dedicating all our medical resources to keeping the old guys erect, but we're putting people in jail for something that grows in the dirt?