The ads are maybe not the best thing to discourage people (from smoking). If I have an addiction, why would I like look at something that reminds me I’m going to die?

And finallythe glass that contains and spills this stuff continuallywhile the drinker hunches before it, while the bartender gathersup empties, gives back the drinker’s own face. Who knows what it looks like;who cares whether or...

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

You know you are a human when a beautiful image appearing on television/computer/smartphone/tab screen appears more alive than a living being.Basically, we are stupid.

I never met an addict who came from a nice home . I’ve met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.

Habit: The shackles of the free.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it...

Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.

Love is the best drug, bar none.

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict has the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the...

Our hearts will be broken a thousand times over, but who is to say that our hearts were ever perfect to begin with? Maybe they can withstand a few cracks. After all, the way that...

All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation

I dye my jeans jet black once a week, but they never seem dark enough. I bleach my hair bright white twice a month but it never seems light enough. I drink two and a...

Addicts don’t like when you tell them they are all the same. Of course not. Who would? But to me, addicts are like actresses, who all audition for the same role in a horror movie....

We’re all princes and princesses, at 5, 50, or 100! It’s never too late, we’re never too old to rock the world and contribute! Reaching for intimacy in all relationships? Delicious.

But I’m not a saint yet. I’m an alcoholic. I’m a drug addict. I’m homosexual. I’m a genius.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t handle drugs.

Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence, the same intimacy known in a mother’s arms; in those...

those people”–the ones we don’t trust, the ones we pity, the ones we don’t let our kids play with, the ones bad things happen to, the ones we don’t want living next door.

Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop...

I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That’s a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease,...

I have a thing about duck, … It’s a culinary addiction — when we eat out, my ‘I’ll have the duck’ is so commonplace that my wife doesn’t even bother to roll her eyes anymore.

Sometimes Love can mean and addiction for hurt.

Memories consumeLike opening the woundI’m picking me apart againYou all assumeI’m safe here in my roomUnless I try to start again.

I’m remarrying you, Lil. Fuck, I’d remarry you a hundred times until it stuck.

There are a lot of times the heart burrows deeper, goes tunnelling into itself for reasons only the heart itself seems to know.They are times of isolation, of hibernation, sometimes of desolation. There is a...

There is good weird and good strange and bad weird and bad strange. Your Daddy is good weird and good strange.

Heroin was a coping mechanism that I had used to deal with my underlying fears. They were the real problems; heroin wasn’t the culprit, my fears were.

Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.

The alcoholic retains the ability to condemn his addiction and advise those not subject to it to avoid succumbing to the liquid poison. But the cocaine addict likes proselytizing; thus, instead of constituting a tangible...

Friends with benefits? More than friends? Don’t sample the goodies unless you’re willing to risk addiction and withdrawal.

A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I’m just a pathetic “druggie” with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of “recovery!” They...

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat.That was until I became one…

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it...

No one wants to admit we’re addicted to music. That’s just not possible. No one’s addicted to music and television and radio. We just need more of it, more channels, a larger screen, more volume....

you calls it Possesiveness,i calls it Fear Of Loosing You.

Starved … laughter is the best medicine. I know from my recovery in all areas of addiction that humor is a tremendously, tremendously important antidote to recovery.

Books are worse than wine, I say. You read one and you need another – there’s no end to it. What ails you that you cannot content yourself with just living on under the sun?

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

It isn’t drugs addicts have to give up. It’s misery.

Always she had sounded sympathetic, always she had appeared to understand. But inside there was a bit of her that said that they couldn’t have tried hard enough. If Celia had a daughter who was...

cure” partner abuse.

A selfie is a proof that either we are very lonely or too self absorbed to ask others to take our picture.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

One thing we do know: Just slamming them in jail doesn’t work. They come out with the same addiction they went in with, and they don’t have the social or vocational skills to help them...

I have an addiction to caffeine.

Krissa, tough Lady Krissa, who had stood by impassively while Areau vomited out ten years of bitter addiction, wiped her eyes and offered Areau Mrs. Wrinkle’s pie in comfort, and it suddenly occurred to Areau...