Andre Malraux Quotes

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

I took drugs because we all took drugs.

With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well.

Confucianism strongly condemned the use of drugs like opium.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

I don't do drugs. I am drugs.

Well, I’ll never have to talk about crap like dope addiction again.

There are no outdoor games in China, or indeed games except in a gambling sense. Absolute dullness and dreariness seem to prevail everywhere. As these two demons drive the Caucasian to drink, so they drive the Chinese to his opium….The Japanese to a man fear opium as we fear the cobra or the rattlesnake, and they despise its victims.

Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

I don't like drugs. I think cocaine is a very bad, habit-forming bore. It's about the most boring drug ever invented.

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

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

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.

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

There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.

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

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

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

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.

…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.

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

Everybody is on drugs . . . just give 'em what they want.

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

It's amazing how low you go to get high.