By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no good times, there is no joy, there is no happiness. There is no future and no escape. There is only an obsession. An all-encompassing, fully enveloping, completely overwhelming obsession. To make light of it, brag about it, or revel in the mock glory of it is not in any way, shape or form related to its truth, and that is all that matters, the truth.

Alcohol is good at disinfecting things
It can clean a surface or erase memories

Millions of deaths would not have happened if it weren’t for the consumption of alcohol. The same can be said about millions of births.

The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to—instead of them—change reality.

Like alcohol and poverty, a heartbreak has the power to make a man do something he wouldn’t normally do and to make a woman do someone she wouldn’t normally do.