George Carlin Quotes About Getting High

Quotes about: Getting High

• The ending of my experience with cocaine came in a periodic way. I would get high less frequently, I would use smaller amounts, and I would do coke for less periods of time. And that process just kept increasing and increasing until I wasn't using it at all. I didn't go on a program anywhere. I didn't join an organization or detox anywhere. I just slowly tapered off until it was gone. That was also true of my heavy pot use. I just tapered off until there was almost no use at all. And the same thing was true of drinking tons of beer.

  George Carlin

  Drinking, Beer, Organization

• My history of moving away from drugs is not the kind you hear from most people. Certainly not from celebrities, especially those professionally recovering people. What I've noticed in my overuse of cocaine is the period of pleasure versus the period of pain. That is to say that when you first get high on anything, the pleasure is predominant and you don't pay much price. A little hangover or whatever it might be with another drug. But after a while the ratio begins to change, and there' s far more pain in the deal than pleasure. It just completely goes in another direction.

  George Carlin

  Pain, Moving, Hangover

• When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning.

  George Carlin

  Morning, Mean, Eight

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• The enjoyment has been diminishing. Now, there's no question that it's sort of fun to get high.

  George Carlin

  Fun, Getting High, Enjoyment

  Source: reprints.longform.org

• When people asked me, "Do you get high to go onstage?" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning. Going onstage had nothing to do with it.

  George Carlin

  Morning, Mean, Eight

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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