Fortunately, some people eat a lot or drink only on special occasions. Unfortunately, they see every—or almost every—day of their lives as a special occasion.

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

Everlasting pain is often caused by the pursuit of fleeting pleasure.

Drunkards have a problem, not with sobriety, but with reality.

A girl or woman that drinks or smokes is very unlikely to still be a virgin.

We can fall out of love at second sight.

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.

Some people would not be nearly as creative or hardworking as they are, if they were not working to feed their addictions.

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.