Sherry Turkle Quotes

I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes or removed them except to stick a needle every hour in the fibrous grey wooden flesh of heroin addiction. I did absolutely nothing.

Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise.

Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?

Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer.

Kids have so much screen time, and it's a concern. I know how overloaded I can feel sometimes.

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

I could give up my phone any day. I don't need it.

I'm never on my phone, really.

I could live without my phone. And one thing I'd love to do is experience having the freedom that kids had back in the '80s.

I have an iPhone, but that's just because I need to take pictures of my 5- and 8 1/2-year-old kids. It becomes quite easily an addiction for people who aren't even aware that they're addicted.

I've seen the needle and the damage done.

Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

There was a time I thought I couldn't enjoy rock 'n' roll unless I had heroin in me

So are you an inmate or a rubbernecker?" she asks. "Rubbernecker," I answer without hesitation. "You?" "I'm a screw. Or on staff, anyway. Used to be an inmate. Repeat offender. Crimes against my body. Puking sickness followed by heroin, which led to more puking sickness." I'd be surprised at her forthrightness, but that's addicts for you. The twelve steps crack 'em open and then they can't shut up.

I've never done heroin or slept with people for money or anything.

Addiction is a revolt of the soul.

I've never done heroin, but I totally understood what would drive people to that distraction-to need that so much.

Cocaine was different. It kept saying, "You haven't had enough." I became an abuser almost instantly.

[Being alcoholic] you're either too high or you're too low. I mean, I was always looking for the bell to ring. I was always waiting for that bell.

I feel bad for people who have never been addicted to anything, because they're the real losers. You want to know why? Because they don't know what it's like to really want something - and then get it again and again and again.

It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.

People who have addictive problems usually have some subset of emotional difficulties that causes them to abuse substances.

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

I really do force myself to not be fully engaged with all the technology at once, just because I have an addictive personality and I get too into it.