William S. Burroughs Quotes

As for drugs, it annoys me that people think it's the worst thing in the world compared with, say, not paying your taxes. If you don't pay tax, you may be stealing from someone who needs an operation. As for me and drugs or alcohol: No thanks, I'm abstaining for a while.

I never did acid, I am just so high anyway.

I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.

I think about my cocaine use. I liked it. I thought it was a great drug. But I knew that if I was doing that almost exclusively, I wouldn't be able to continue to also have significant others and a wide range of other things. And I wasn't special. A number of people, including the people I was doing cocaine with, also behaved the same way.

In truth I never really liked any of the heavy drugs, because normally my energy is up when I'm performing, and that's about it. Cocaine is nothing new. It's the pressure, I think. People use it to relieve that, and for me it is about getting numb and forgetting. I have a reverse metabolic reaction to the stuff.

As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it.

I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue.

I function because I am on drugs.

It's okay to get stoned, as long as its not by other people.

Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine. But do I? Am I an addict? No. Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors, probably approximately about a year ago.

Thousands of years people have taken drugs, whether it's alcohol, which was invented about 5,000 years ago. People have been using that. And all kinds of marijuana and all these things, tobacco. So all these drugs have been - it seems to be the propensity of human beings to want to use them.

I know people who do a lot of drugs, and they keep thinking about things from the past and things ahead. But they're not living right here and now.

I was covering up for the fact that I was doing drugs. It was a very weird lifestyle.

I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.

When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning.

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.

People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing.

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

It's drugs, isn't it"? Tara was so innocent. She got pulled into that glamorous lifestyle with all her rich friends...all that cocaine dust floating around, she probably inhaled some by accident, and then -' 'There's no such thing as secondhand cocaine snorting, Mom.

I've never taken drugs - if you take a drug of your choice, you get some ecstatic feeling.

Drugs Are the Religion of the People ? The Only Hope is Dope.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.