I had two speeds, which often varied with my blood alcohol level: fine wit…
An intensely gripping narrative...expertly crafted and totally addictive..…
What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. …
Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream and died wit…
The reader! You, dogged, uninsultable, print-oriented bastard, it's you I'…
The world actually is a mirror, and as you change, you will see everything…
The first 10 days of a cattle drive were the most critical, as a stampede …
He read because it gave him instant gratification in a way nothing else di…
One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving…
A hand-rolled cigarette to smoke,Another one bought from the store.If he l…
Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you
In a way, we’re all addicts by nature.
Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame…
A junkie runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down …
I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a mea…
Once, during the drinking phase, Wendy had accused him of desiring his own…
If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to k…
Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wi…
There is no such thing as 'just one last cigarette' – except the last ciga…
The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my act…
The silver flask called to him.Blue Coyote Motel
Quit while you’re ahead.All the best gamblers do.
I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.
Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like f…
I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a…
I must give due praise to the man who first extracted morphine from poppyh…
There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I g…
Drunkenness is not a new vice. Its ravages have always been a scourge on t…
It’s important to be aware that many families are dysfunctional, but we ca…
Do not seek solace in alcohol. Alcohol obscures good judgment and leaves y…
He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall…
In my view, compassion takes empathy to another level. With compassion, th…
All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chanc…
It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the o…
The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your d…
Instead of being a gift that separates us from the animals, free will has …
My slurred speech isn’t from one or nine drinks too many, it’s from my fat…
Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a c…
If those who cause destruction have come to be ‘newsworthy’, and those who…
I felt utterly stripped of safety and love. And so, what tormented me most…
Someone put opera on inside the house. Someone changed it to hip-hop, than…
The first week is the hardest. Then little by little the world opens up, a…
A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically thin…
The distressing internal state is not examined: thefocus is entirely on th…
And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a w…
Consumption can be a remedy against boredom and may convey a sense of fict…
Every single one of them with their eyes open and on him, their mouths, to…
Love is the best drug, bar none.
Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don't hav…
It's like an addiction, one I battle every day. It appeared at first drink…
Life was radical right after I met the monster.Later, life became harder, …
It's probably weird to think about an addiction like it's a sentient being…
Even those who drink until blacking out, those who beat women, are not the…
What if I'm so broken I can never do something as basic as feed myself? Do…
Liquor is not necessary either for health or for so-called gracious living…
It’s like you’re always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate yo…
See, I am very dependent... on beauty and peace of the world... on loyalty…
Getting rid of the drugs doesn’t get rid of all the other ways you learned…
The Greek word used in the New Testament to designate a sorcerer or a pers…
Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way.
Habits are good if you have the habit of the best.
It is only the Creator that can set thy soul free from every struggle.
In a world of selfie-addiction smile usually is the brand name for an esse…
Bookworms are the most precious worms in the world when they are humans, f…
If that’s the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You’ve num…
Dependence on drugs is not a disease, it is not a virus, it is not somethi…
Addiction is just a little hiding place where sensitive people can go so w…
Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, a…
Don’t ever forget you are beautiful, although your life, your past and you…
I am here for readers to see parts of themselves during my dark days, but …
We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot ch…
Temptation can sway even the purest mind to sin, and the denialist to clai…
It will all be over in 2 weeks
When the headlines get black and foreboding, the sale of alcohol and barbi…
It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm'…
We labor under the great delusion that we are in control. Silly humans.
People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they…
Each generation becomes more addicted to the sedatives of life, to dull th…
Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and…
Yet they enjoy the high. In the surest sign that selenium actually makes t…
I wanted to meet the monster. Why go down if you can go up?
See, you’ve got to understand, son. There’s two types of guys in this worl…
Ultimately, we are much more addicted than the junkie because we are respo…
Idolatry is always subject to the law of diminishing returns.
There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of arti…
The treatment must fit the malady and the malady is not alcoholism or addi…
End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to…
...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning t…
A WISHSometimes I wish that he will liveand I will see him.But mostly I wi…
This self-confident generation has produced more alcoholics, more drug add…
[On writing Jeeves and Wooster stories]:You tell yourself that you can tak…
Another piano falls, but this time it's me— or my lascivious loneliness, o…
I got addicted. News, particularly daily news, is more addictive than crac…
Introverts just just don't buzz as easily.
This could be addictive.
I HOLDIf I could have had him,I could have let himgo.But withoutthe having…
Times change and discoveries are made that render earlier techniques and a…
Out of all the addictions in the world, Attention is slowly but surely bec…
The next day we were all shooting up. "Jeez. Look at the size of the cotto…
If we are continuing to attract partners that are emotionally unavailable,…
