Philip K. Dick Quotes

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

I drink to forget I drink.

Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck.

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed!

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.

If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it.

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

No one should do drugs thinking that they will make a great record. That's not the way to go, for sure.

I just got caught up in the alcohol, women and all that sort of stuff.

With rock n' roll and touring comes a lot of good and bad decisions. These guys who are 21, they're out there, and they're not indestructible. The history of rock n' roll tells us, and so a lot of these guys are on this road to destruction.

I regarded drugs as somewhat like rattlesnakes - it's possible to pick one up without getting bit, but why bother?

If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.

Alcohol is the cause of all my problems.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

Drugs are wrong. They burn out your brain and they sear your soul.

We have found that equivocation by the parents has contributed to eventual drug experimentation

I used crack cocaine probably in one of my drunken stupors

I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.