So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so

Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it