Ayelet Waldman Quotes

I was 30 years old and this girl I knew found out I had never gotten high. Nobody had ever told me about marijuana.

A lot of my friends were fooling around with drugs then.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.

Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15. I got in trouble a fair amount. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying. Which I am not recommending teenagers do if they read this.

I've never tried pot; I've never tried anything.

At school, I was this tomboy kid who just loved to hang out with her friends and learn curse words, trying to fit in with the cool kids and defending all the kids who got picked on.

We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.

Me: "If you want me to be a teenager, don't send me to Support Group. Buy me a fake ID so I can go to clubs, drink vodka, and take pot." Mom: "You don't take pot, for starters." Me: "See, that's the kind of thing I'd know if you got me a fake ID.

I didn’t just experiment with marijuana – if you know what I mean.

You can't go to an LSD or pot party unless you take it yourself. If I want to go, I must take drugs myself.

Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?

I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried.

You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I'm allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like 'I'm not into hard-core feminism.'

Every generation finds the drug it needs.

I think drugs are part of the magical possibilities of youth and I wouldn't be here if I had continued with it.

I also think that there's a little peer pressure. They probably think that a majority of people their age think the same things and they want to be considered - I don't know what the word is - in, hip, whatever, with that bunch. I think time will take care of some of this as it is revealed that [Donald] Trump is not what they think.

I smoke pot every day, and I love it!

The phrase booze and mischief left me worrying I'd stumbled into what my mother referred to as "the wrong crowd," but for the wrong crowd, they both seemed awfully smart.

I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. That’s why I loved [the Robert Cormier YA novel] The Chocolate War - because the cool kids (not the establishment) were the villains. I totally identified with that.

I was pretty young. I guess I was in high school, so I was probably 13 years old. It was crazy. I remember it very vividly. I remember - it was actually kind of horrifying, because one of my friends - we smoked out of a bong, and one of my friends - this was so stupid - he didn't want to bring - it was after school on a Friday, and he didn't - we smoked weed in this park called the Ravine that was across the street from my high school.

I do like to smoke pot. I think it's good.

High school. You know, people say, 'I'll never do so-and-so again' - then they do it. So what? Sometimes somebody has crack, and you're looking to stay awake.

I'm never quite sure how far to go with praising young kids because the next thing you will see him probably driving a Mercedes and he'll have his socks over his knees and four earrings in and a Walt Disney hat.