Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not “cure” partner abuse.

I love you,” he says again, “and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.

What every man should desire is an ugly woman with a beautiful heart, not a beautiful woman with an ugly heart.

But I'm not a saint yet. I'm an alcoholic. I'm a drug addict. I'm homosexual. I'm a genius.

Too many codeine pills,Too many nights of cold chillsToo many weak-handed dealsToo many lives, the addict steals

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.

Some, they didn't make it.The temptation just too strong.How can darkness cloud the mindTo what I know as wrong?

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just better form.

Fine. Such a stupid word really. It feels empty and weightless. It’s the kind of word you use to hide the truth.

The slick concrete reflected the facades of the work weary - grey, cracked and old,but more importantly, trodden upon.

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.

I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.