“If I hadn’t quit drinking, yeah, maybe I’d be dead or in jail. But probably I’d just be missing out on an extraordinary life. And that would be a tragedy.” — Brendan Leonard Copy Share Image
“Over the next three years, Mick and I would talk on and off about his drinking. To me, it hadn’t seemed like much, but I often remembered that night in the camper, how it seemed like something was missing. I… — Brendan Leonard Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t going to miss out on any of it, no matter how low or how high it got, just because, what, I wanted… — Brendan Leonard Copy Share Image
“I didn’t drink a couple of beers and chill out; I drank as hard as I could as long as I could. I didn’t… — Brendan Leonard Copy Share Image
“In addiction, just like climbing, you can’t fall off if you don’t let go.” — Brendan Leonard Copy Share Image
“I had graduated from pointless shit like sitting on a barstool for hours at a time to pointless shit like crawling sideways across a… — Brendan Leonard Copy Share Image
“If I hadn’t quit drinking, yeah, maybe I’d be dead or in jail. But probably I’d just be missing out on an extraordinary life.… — Brendan Leonard Copy Share Image
“The thing I realize, though, the longer and longer I stay sober, is that the bigger injustice would not be a life cut short,… — Brendan Leonard Copy Share Image
“Over the next three years, Mick and I would talk on and off about his drinking. To me, it hadn’t seemed like much, but… — Brendan Leonard Copy Share Image
