I want to find happiness in the palm of someone's hands, not at the bottom of a bottle, or at the end of a joint.

It was from his past -- the drinking and the drug use, ... They found signs of heart disease. [The medical examiner] said that the blood vessels were very worn and narrow, and that just showed all the abuse from the scheduling of work and his past.

Good people drink good beer.

...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety - the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy - the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis of all possible implications of both getting up from the couch and not getting up from the couch...

Sometimes words are like water and lips as strong as wine.

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.