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"I was a big pothead for a short period. That was what ticked me off that I shouldn't go near hard drugs, actually, because I would consume the stuff as if it was going out of style and it rapidly occurred to me that if I ever tried a hard drug, the same thing would happen, so I never did."
"I work closely with a number of charities from food pantries to drug rehabilitation to natural disaster relief to preventing sexual exploitation of young girls. It is one of the most rewarding things I do."
"It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse."
"No man is really changed by success. What happens is that success works on the man’s personality like a truth drug, bringing him out of the closet and revealing… what was always inside his head."
"Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older."
"And that almost everyone was struggling to wake up, to be loved, and not feel so afraid all the time. That's what the cars, degrees, booze, and drugs were about."
"...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature."
"The consciousness-expanding drugs - the hallucinogens, such as cannabis, mescaline, LSD, Psylocybin - I think are useful to a writer up to a certain point. That is, they open psychic areas that would not otherwise be available to the writer. But I feel that once these areas have been opened and the writer has reached them, he is able to get back there in the future without the drug."
"You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere."
"I don't take drugs: I am drugs."
"Girls weren’t drug addicted, they were love addicted, and that, I’ll learn, is far harder to treat."
"One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?"
"The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church."
"I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large."
"But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them."
"But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius."
"Drugs bring in guns. They bring in all these black-on-black crimes."
"Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes."
"Our current drug crisis is a tragedy born of a phony system of classification. For reasons that are little more than accidents of history, we have divided a group of nonfood substances into two categories: items purchasable for supposed pleasure (such as alcohol), and illicit drugs."
"I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it."
