"I was never a pipe or bong..." - Quote by George Carlin
I was never a pipe or bong man. That's California stuff. I was an Eastern roller.
More by George Carlin
“When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts. Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend.”
“I do something about the weather. I stay home.”
“I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!”
More on Drugs
“Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs.”
“Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims against the tide, the outsider, the loner, all of that guy. He was my private self, and I had this other side that wanted to be liked in order to do all those things I dreamed of as a little boy. I didn't realize that those things didn't go together until later. And I'm quite sure that my use of acid and peyote helped me accept what was really going on inside of me instead of what I had imposed on myself.”
“It's amazing how low you go to get high.”
More on Personal Experience
“Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?”
“I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me.”
“Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.”