Bill Hicks Quotes

I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.

We have drunk too much of your rum already, which has occasioned our destruction; we will, in the future, beware of it.

Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.

The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

So many times I thought to myself, man, I never want to do drugs again. But I would never sacrifice any experience I've ever had on them, and I am not remorseful that I've done them. I would like to get more and more away from drugs.

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

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 don't like alcohol, but I still like to mess around with other stuff occasionally. I think it's important I take mushrooms and acid. They're certainly not addictive, so I can't rule that out.

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

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

God slaps you around a little bit when you drink too much.

I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.

If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it.

I like smoking pot, but I'm not the kind of guy who smokes every day.

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.

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

I've never really been interested in recreational drug use.

I always think it's better to be not taking drugs or drinking or anything. That's not saying I've never done it because I have. But I sort of learned I think after a while there has been - it didn't take me that long to realize that it wasn't a good thing.

I smoke because I like to get high.

I've really been grappling with depression. It's all linked with my cocaine and ecstasy abuse.

I smoked pot and that was something that I did when I was in college. It was something that I’m not proud of, but I did.

Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.