Nick Flynn Quotes

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

It's not cool to be an alcoholic.

Mr. Speaker, as a grateful recovering alcoholic of 24 years myself, I am living proof that treatment does work and that recovery is real.

Home Protection—protection against the tyranny of drink.

I quit drinking because I thought somewhere I had fallen in that trap of addiction, and the only way to get out of it was to acknowledge it to myself.

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

When I was still drinking, I thought I was kind of in control of everything in my life and other people's lives and realized at some point that that just wasn't the case at all.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

But I think that the most important thing was to really stop drinking.

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man.

The alcoholic suffers from a disease.

If you are to be employed by the BBC, you must promise not to get drunk…. You look as if you will be washed out of poetry by whisky.

Okay, I've admitted to drinking too much. Okay, so I'm dealing with it.

Above anything else - above family or job - the main thing is staying sober. That's because without being sober, I don't have a family.

I went off the rails for a few years with drink and different things.