"I think there's a degree of luck and intellect involved in giving up things that hurt you. The drug and alcohol thing, it seems to me, comes down to this: drugs and these things are wonderful. They're wonderful when you try them first. They're not around for all these millenia for no reason. First time: mostly pleasure, very little pain. Maybe a hangover. And as you increase and keep using whatever it is, the pleasure part decreases, and the pain part—the price you pay—increases, until the balance is completely the other way, and it's almost all pain, and there's hardly any pleasure. At that point, you would hope that the intellect says: "Oh! This doesn't work anymore. I'm going to die! And I'll do something." But you need people around you who can help you, and you need something to live for. You have to have something to look forward to, to bring you out of it."
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George Carlin, in George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy (HBO, 1997)
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