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.

Slavery often masquerades as freedom.

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

The challenging thing with trying to fill our emptiness with things such as food, drugs, and alcohol is that our body is a leaky container.

Our emptiness greatly exaggerates the pleasure of an orgasm, and that of being high or tipsy.

Ironically, the effects of addiction are worse in cases where the addict seldom affords the addiction.

Addiction denied is recovery delayed.

Because of things such as drugs and alcohol, countless people, most of whom are female, do not know that they were once raped, many of them more than once.