Jim Mattis Quotes

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

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

Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

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

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

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

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

"Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?" "Yes. A drink."

I be getting high just to balance out the lows.

We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.

I drink to forget I drink.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

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.

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

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.

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