Marilyn vos Savant Quotes

Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living.

I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

If I want to be truthfully honest, I think, dealing with the stress of the situations that I've been going through, medicating with anything, I think, is dangerous because it becomes a crutch.

I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

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?

Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.

I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.

I never got to the point of needing drugs or thinking about giving up myself.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

We never could have performed live for an hour and a half every week if we were doing drugs.

I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.