It's just like an alcoholic to think he's doing the Zombie…

My father was raised by a violent alcoholic. There was alcoholism in my mother's family. I'm half-adopted, and my birth father was a drug…

— Melissa Febos

only a complete alcoholic can think life is funny ... any life! ...

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

If you find a path with no obstacles, it likely leads nowhere.

— Catherine DeVrye

Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full…

— Bucky Sinister

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

— David Bowie

We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore…

— Bill W

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

— Herbert Bayard Swope

I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke"…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

— Anonymous

While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through…

— Albert Belle

If you always do what you did, you'll always get what you got.

— Marian Diamond

“Being a politician is a lot like being an alcoholic in denial.”

— Huntley Fitzpatrick

“I want him to reach out to me, but I know he can't. He can't for all the same reasons I can't. It hurts…

— Elizabeth Finn

“She would try to live life one day at a time, like an alcoholic--drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs.”

— Lorrie Moore

What people think of you is none of your business.

— Deepak Chopra