Susan Cheever Quotes

It's very addictive having a hit.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

Nobody understands that by the time the addiction has set in the alcoholic is mandated to drink ... he cannot not drink! Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'Jiminy Cricket, I feel sensational! My life is really in great shape! I think I'll become an alcoholic!' I firmly believe that when a shaking-to-pieces alcoholic says he needs a drink or he will die, he means it.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

I am mildly addicted to Mucinex-D. I feel like I should just come clean about that.

Drugs made me feel more normal.

I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.

I wrote like a junkie. I had to have my daily fix.

Drug abuse is a very difficult disease.

I have an addictive personality, so when I like something, I really want it all.

I've got an addictive personality.

Addiction is not a curable condition.

I think I was an alcoholic. There are all these grey areas about what makes you an alcoholic - you can't cope without it, you stop caring about jobs and relationships, or you just binge.

I'd go into the pub and start crying even before I'd had my first drink.

When times are good, people drink. When times are bad, people drink.

Unfortunately, with addiction, there's manipulation and deception.

Well, addiction does start with a choice.

Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.

How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.

I be getting high just to balance out the lows.

Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

The worst drugs are as bad as anybody's told you. It's just a dumb trip, which I can't condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one's own personal, social, emotional reasons. It's something to be avoided if one can help it.

When I drank, I'd be happy for 10 minutes. When I got high, I'd feel a sense of nothingness for about an hour. But in the end, my negative emotions always came rushing back.

His embrace was my drug of choice, and as any addict knew, one sampling was way too many and a thousand never enough.