Jim Diamond Quotes

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

I had a very bad time with acid. I did that classic thing of looking in the mirror by mistake and seeing the devil. But I took it several times, because you always think that next time you might have the wonderful time that everyone else is having.

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

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.

The American who drinks wine is in danger of becoming the victim of drunkenness, licentiousness, and gambling.

If we were going to look at how pharmalogical drugs influence crime, we should probably look at alcohol.

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

You're a beautiful drunk, daughter. But you're a drunk.

You might be a rock and roll addict prancing on the stage. You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage.

I had to stop drinking alcohol, because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

I would drink and drink and then at 3 o'clock in the morning take anything that was put in front of me. And I'd sometimes be disappointed when conventional things were put in front of me. Like, I'd do a line of something and be disappointed to find it was just cocaine.

We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

A man who's intoxicated all the time doesn't need sympathy.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself.

Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

From this moment on I'd dedicate my life to rock and roll and take as many drugs as possible. What could possibly go wrong?

He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only.

All you drunkards: Put down the intoxicating Vanity Metrics.

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.