“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...”

“The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.”

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

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

“A junkie spends half his life waiting.”

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

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

“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”