“Like a brain surgeon who drinks a martini when he's not on call, the successful kids in your school may smoke pot on occasion, but they are not stoners.”

“Smoke weed, take pills, drop outta school, kill people and drink. Jump behind the wheel like it was still legal!”

“I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot — we inhale from our Bartlett's.”

“I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.”

“I think pot should be legal. I don’t smoke it, but I like the smell of it.”

“Training and smoking pot like I should, instead of paying attention to other bullshit”

“Disgusting as he usually was, on rare occasions he showed flashes of stagnant intelligence. But his brain was so rotted with drink and dissolute living that whenever he put it to work it behaved like an old engine that had gone haywire from being dipped in lard.”

“"They're all, 'Dude, we're sorry. We were just kids. Your know how kids are. Growing up' and I'm just like "Shut up!'" (talking about when he meets people from his high school.)”

“You ever smoke so much pot your wife starts to make sense? Me neither.”

“We didn't have rehab back in the Seventies. Back in the Seventies, rehab meant you stopped doing coke, but you kept smoking pot and drinking for a couple more weeks.”