Carrie Fisher Drug Quotations

Ambition is exhausting. It makes you friends with people for the wrong reasons, just like drugs.

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

Happy is one of the many things I'm likely to be over the course of a day and certainly over the course of a lifetime. But I think if you have the expectation that you're going to be happy throughout your life--more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time--well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

I used to refer to my drug use as putting the monster in the box. I wanted to be less, so I took more - simple as that. Anyway, I eventually decided that the reason Dr. Stone had told me I was hypomanic was that he wanted to put me on medication instead of actually treating me. So I did the only rational thing I could do in the face of such as insult - I stopped talking to Stone, flew back to New York, and married Paul Simon a week later.