Whenever there was a crisis, I found a man to help me take the edge off the feelings of helplessness and pain.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

There were a number of books about Bill Wilson, and by him, but a lot of the basic biographical tasks had not been done.

The birth of a child is in many ways the end of a marriage - marriage including a child has to be reinvented, and reinvented at a time when both husband and wife are under unprecedented stress and the wife is exhausted, physically drained, and emotionally in shock. A man's conflict between wanting his child to have a mother and wanting to have the mother to himself is potentially intolerable.

Our [western] culture embraces sex addiction. If I drink too much or rack up credit-card debt or lose the rent in Vegas, that's bad. But if I have many lovers, that's good.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Love is a great wrecker of peace of mind.