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

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

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

Sleep is often a form of escapism.

One of the most boring things about being in a relationship is that your partner usually makes their boredom your problem.

It almost never takes a pleasant state of mind to desire to be high or drunk.

Some of our endeavours to eliminate or forget our problems invite more problems.

One cannot help but wonder what used to get the huge portions of our attention that are now gotten by social media every single day.

Not a single alcohol has a human problem.