The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.

This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water.

You shouldn't eat animals, it's mean to them.

If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

I've come off heroin twice, and the worst part is laying in bed kicking and not being able to keep still. The physical withdrawal doesn't last that long, but then it's just all psychological. I think it's worse than cigarettes.