Gregory Corso Quotes

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

I met William Burroughs in 1971. I got his address through a magazine and went to London to spend time with him.

I am not too interested in leaving the street people and joining the Establishment. I prefer street folks.

Pretty much any drug you can name, I've done it.

There is not a single person alive who could keep a straight face and say "Oh yeah it's healthy, the reason I use drugs and alcohol and booze is because it's healthy!"

I don't know how I made those movies. I went out every single night, I smoked pot every single day. I drank. We did everything, but I never became a drug addict or an alcoholic. Other friends are dead, many of them. So many people in this retrospective...in Female Trouble, almost everyone is dead.

Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

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

I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.

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

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

The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.

I drank, smoked and did drugs to get where I'm at.

There's no drug that I would never take again.

If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.

There is some really good crack when I come back here. This is where I learned to swear.

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?

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

I hear heroin is a very popular drug these days.

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

Have you ever tried sugar or PCP?