Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Well, it wasn't like I was going to run out and score heroin and score an ounce of coke - but incidentally, on the road, I would usually get tanked up and as stoned as I possibly could to go on stage. And offstage, it would be a demon that would come up about twice a week.

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

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

I have strong views against substance usage and abuse. It's bad for kidney and central neuro system.

In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.

So who's on drugs here?... He looks as if he's on drugs.

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

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 get high on all types of drugs when, all you really need is Love

A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.

I did a lot of drugs. I didn't do multiple drugs, but I overindulged in whatever drug of choice.

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.

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

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

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

When you take a lot of cocaine powder you tend to take a lot of alcohol with it as well, so for many years really I never went out without at least four or five grams of cocaine powder.

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.