Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally.

“Just because I'd kicked junk, after all, did not mean I'd kicked being a junkie. And junkies lie. It's their primary addition.”

— Jerry Stahl

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

— Augusten Burroughs

Stoners are cute; junkies are sad.

— Kevin Smith

Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this makes me…

— Henrietta Rose-Innes

The majority of juice-heads and winos and junkies arent musicians.

— Thelonious Monk

We're news junkies in my house.

— Stephen King

A junkie will steal your purse, and then help you look for it.

— Craig Ferguson

I can't hang out as loose as I used to, but I can still go down Jefferson Avenue and look in the faces of…

— Rick James

Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always…

— Dave McPherson

“I didn't realize there was a ranking." I said. "Sadie frowned. "What do you mean?" "A ranking," I said. "You know, what's crazier than…

— Michael Thomas Ford

In Manhattan last month I heard a woman borrowing the jargon of junkies to say to another, 'Want to do some chocolate?'

— Diane Ackerman

Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about…

— Anonymous

We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper.

— Sally Quinn

People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.

— George Jung

Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsciously crave a wee bit ay silence.

— Irvine Welsh