Irvine Welsh Quotes

No one should do drugs thinking that they will make a great record. That's not the way to go, for sure.

I watched the needle take another man.

It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.

Ryan took him out of Betty Ford after Redmond wanted to leave because he met a girl there. The girl was a heroin addict. She was the one who introduced him to the stuff.

There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me

I've been trying to quit smoking weed and it's really hard quitting pot. It was actually easier to become a vegetarian because your friends never show up at your house with a sack of beef.

Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are impervious to the repugnance of others. It is doubtful if shame can exist in the absence of sexual libido... The junky's shame disappears with his nonsexual sociability which is also dependent on libido.

I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.

The Easter Bunny is a major reason for heroin addiction in America.

Of course I miss [drugs]. And anyone who tells you they don't is lying.

For the record, pot, like the Reader's Digest , is not necessarily habit-forming, but both can lead to hard-core addiction : heroin, in one case, abridged bad books, in the other. Either way you look at it, a withdrawal from a meaningful life.

The only reason I can't recommend heroin to kids is because the effects wear off.

They never differentiate between drug users and drug addicts... I've done most drugs there are socially, I never had a problem.

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.

I think narcotics and alcohol, and even tobacco are enormously costly ingredients in our society.

Tobacco addiction sinks its claws in deeply, it's just as powerful of [sic] an addiction as heroin or crack cocaine.

Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.

I'll be a good boy, please make me well. I promise you anything, get me out of this hell. Cold turkey has got me on the run.

The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.

I'm sick and tired of people saying that taking drugs is a sickness. When you put something of your own free will in your own body knowing that it's harmful against the body, it's against the law and all it will do is lead you down the path of destruction, that is a weakness.

I'm losing touch with reality and I'm almost out of blow. It's such a fine line, I hate to see it go. Cocaine, runnin' all 'round my brain.