“Strategy is accepting that you are doing something better than the other and the other is doing something better than you. You have to pick your fight.”
"What is important now is to realize that alcohol does pick you up, but only from how far it kicked you down, never up to where you were before you started drinking"
"This is a key to all drug addiction—the drug creates the low and then deceives its victims into believing that, by ending the low, it is providing a high."