Ross MacDonald Quotes

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

And we used to do a lot of drugs and get very drunk on very cheap wine.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

Liquor perverts the end of society, and unfits us for all those distinguishing and exquisite Feelings, which are the Cordials of Life, and the noblest Privileges of Humanity.

I used crack cocaine probably in one of my drunken stupors

I drink to forget I drink.

I've been drinking and using since I was 13.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

Why do alcoholics begin down the same hazardous road day after day? They are in search of that elusive window of well-being that opens when you drink your way out of a hangover and aren't yet drunk all over again. The alcoholic's day consists of trying to keep that window open.

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

Drugs ruin peoples lives, break up families and have disastrous effects on our communities.

That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.

One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself, 'It's time to stop. I can't do it anymore. It's not good. It hurts too much.'

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other.

My second marriage had a lot to do with alcohol.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

I didn't do drugs. It wasn't my thing. But the drink was terrible. Today when I look back, it's like I was another person. You could call it a coping mechanism, but that would be an excuse. I just drank too much.

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.

If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.