Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.

The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a life whose scorched-earth physical and psycho-emotional dimensions no one could have invented - they absolutely had to be lived. By all rights, the author should either be dead or chewing his fingers in a bus station. Instead, he may well have written the memoir of an entire generation.

I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I didn't go there.

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.

You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.