“Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.”

“But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with a...”

“If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man h...”

“You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.”

“When we drug ourselves to blot out our soul's call, we are being good Americans and exemplary consumers.”

“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”

“Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and...”

“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.”

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

“If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party,what are you running away from?”

“A junkie spends half his life waiting.”

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satis...”