Eve Babitz Quotes

'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

Drugs are wrong. They burn out your brain and they sear your soul.

Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you—and kill you the long, slow, hard way.

... franking junkies ...

People are slaves to a plant! Cocoa, cocaine, the coca plant—people are hooked on a vegetable!

No one should do drugs thinking that they will make a great record. That's not the way to go, for sure.

Marijuana is a gateway drug that can lead to awful things, like Phish getting back together.

I was bangin’ 7 gram rocks and finishing them because that’s how I roll

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

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

I actually didn't like that feeling of being out of touch because what I do depends on being in touch. But it's fun to talk about. That's one of the real dangers of drugs: they're too much fun to talk about.

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

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.

Drugs are delusive; they do not adjust anything.

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.

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.

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.

I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with.

It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.

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

Sex is just another real good drug ... and it can make a junkie out of you.