Above average Quote by James Frey

That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people...That boring activities become, perversely, much less…

— David Foster Wallace

I think drug addicts have brains wired like adventurers and they didn't get the opportunity to find it. You know, the people I get…

— Jimmy Chin

The hallmark of addiction is that it changes your brain chemistry. It actually affects that part of your brain that's responsible for judgment.

— Michael Botticelli

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

— David Foster Wallace

“Addicts are brilliant liars, Inspector. They lie to themselves and then to everyone else. They’re in denial about their problem, and they are experts…

— Fiona Barton

Addiction is a chronic disease of the brain and it's one that we have to treat the way we would any other chronic illness:…

— Vivek Murthy

When people get in trouble with addiction, it's because they're holding themselves to too high a standard and because they're not meeting it, they…

— Ron Livingston

I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness.…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Don't judge addicts. They don't plan to be addicted. They don't, as a child, say hey! I wanna be a junkie when I grow…

— Kylee

Addiction is a brain disease - this isn't a moral failing - and we have got to stop looking at it that way.

— Perri Peltz

I think most people will tell you that. They can go along and, while they're denying that they are addicted, say it's stress this,…

— Dick Van Dyke

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

— Sherman Alexie