130 Quotes by David Sheff

When change takes place gradually, it's difficult to comprehend its meaning.

Everyone's generation probably feels like they're parenting in a better way.

I totally believe parents should talk to their kids about drugs. I totally believe that educating them in every way is really important. But on the other hand, I've learned it's not as simple as that.

Reading Bukowski and Burroughs and Henry Miller doesn't necessarily mean that a kid is going to try to emulate their debauchery to the point that Nic did, but he really was fascinated by it.

To try to help somebody who doesn't want to be helped is ludicrous. It doesn't work.

So many times in the middle of an interview I've had people say, 'Can we go off the record?'

So often we have this image of what drug addiction looks like, and it's not fun. Our loved ones who go down that path are in pain.

I came to understand that Nic on drugs was not the Nic I knew and trusted. Nic on drugs was somebody else. We were afraid of him.

There are many things I wish I could redo as a parent.