Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and problems and stuff like that, and really getting an education on it, I think it was part of the process of it, learning about it and trying to lick it.
This is our most dangerous addiction - our addiction to things. For it is this addiction that underlies the materialism of our age. And nowhere is this addiction more apparent than in our addiction to money.
Sugar is more present in America or England than it is in France. I think there is an addiction to sweetness.
This dark diction has become America's addiction.
Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.
Addiction is a very compelling subject for literature - especially now that it's nearly impossible to come out of adult experience without some addiction - to substances, sure, but also to love, sex, success, failure, power.
The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.
What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.
Don't do drugs because if you do drugs you'll go to prison, and drugs are really expensive in prison.
It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.
Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition. . . What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
Mexico's a great place to overcome a drug addiction.
Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.
Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.
I'm like a junky without an addiction.
The difference between passion and addiction is that between a divine spark and a flame that incinerates.
Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.