George Saunders Quotes

Smoking, chewing betel nut, and taking drugs for pleasure are not for Christians. These practices are wrong because (1) they make us their slaves, (2) they harm our bodies, and (3) they are unclean … It can be very hard to give up these habits. But we must do so to please Jehovah.

I've never done a drug. I don't drink. I refuse to alter my mind in any way.

The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

I'm such a control freak, and it's very hard for me to lose my inhibitions without something chemical inside me.

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

I am too much of a control freak to be a drinker.

It seems people are more willing to let other people control their minds now and recreational drug use doesn't seem to have that same renegade sense of adventure that it once did.

I don't smoke and I don't drink alcohol.

I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.

Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.

I don't drink, I don't smoke.

I think my style of play, not drinking, I think I'm a product of clean living. I don't drink, don't smoke.

Stay away from those who would hang around you and drink and do drugs. Drugs are not the answer, because you have to remain focused. There is a lot to be had within music, but you have to stay focused.

I feel like if you wanna be sober and you can't handle being around someone who drinks, then don't do it.

I don't smoke. I don't drink. I don't do nothing, bro.

I don't drink. Don't smoke.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

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

I don't drink. I don't do drugs.

What's the point of staying sober?

I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.