“Something like Valium," she suggested, "but not Valium." It sounded like a riddle”

“ At five that night, I went back to the market and bought three sixteen-ounce Rainier Ales. I bounced back to my house, Mary Lou Retton-like, sipped the first ale, took the Valium, smoked a joint, drank the second ale, took another Valium, listened to “Into the Mystic” ten times, drank the third Ale, too the Valium and the Halcion, and discovered two unhappy thoughts. One was it was only seven o’clock. The second was that I was wide awake.”

“Mashed potato is the gentile's chicken soup. It's nature's tranquilizer. I take it instead of valium.”

“If you stop drinking, I’ll stop taking Valium, and then we’ll see who’s who and who’s what.”

“My goldfish is swimming around all excited inside the fishbowl on the fridge so I reach up and drop a Valium in its water.”

“Diazapam (that's valium), temazepam, lithium, ECT, HRT - how long must I stay on this stuff? Don't give me anymore!”