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Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods and aching arms. To my ex-wife, bass are the bewilderment of addiction.

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

I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is on a locomotive headed right for me.

Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.

I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The question ''Why did you start using narcotics in the first place?'' should never be asked. It is quite as irrelevant to treatment as it would be to ask a malarial patient why he went to a malarial area.

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. habit is hell for those you love.nd in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind.t certain hours it haunts the house.