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Sometimes, when I hear people without experience of addiction blame addicts for their behaviour, I feel like saying to them: 'You simply don't understand - how can a child be held responsible for doing such a dreadful thing to himself?' But then again, at other times I have to acknowledge: it was done wilfully.

It's sometimes too easy to point fingers when circumstances dramatically go awry, but as an addict, I'm ultimately responsible for my own decisions, no matter how benign or tragic the consequences.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

Addiction isn't about substance - you aren't addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Because I know I'm an addict, and I know I'm an alcoholic.

Everyone likes to hear that their eccentricities and their addictions are simply evidence of their sensitive artistic nature.