Dashiell Hammett Quotes

Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves.

I've been drinking and using since I was 13.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

I used drugs as a social activity; a way to have fun with friends.

In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.

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.

I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.

I just love having a buzz all the time, regardless of the consequences.

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I take pills too much, I work too much, I girl around too much, I everything too much.

I was married for 18 years to a woman who wanted me to get sober for all 18 years and I never did. She finally came to her senses and divorced me.

If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction.

Drunkenness was extremely common… It seemed for many the only refuge from depression and misery. The effect of drunkenness upon the ordinary relationship of husband and wife, parents and children, was disastrous.

I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?

I feel like I've had bad nights or destructive nights or nights where I don't remember anything or nights where I was seriously injured or seriously in danger. And I remained nihilistic and unconcerned because it felt like there was no alternative.

There were times when I got frightened. Things weren't going right, so I just went out and got smashed. That's me. Something goes wrong, I find a bottle. I don't like it about myself but I've done it before and I'll do it again. But I never vanished for days or held up shooting or quit the picture.

When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.