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Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

I didn't cause it. I can't control it. I can't cure it.

How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.

The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.

An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

Wherever you be, wherever you may, seek the truth, strive for the beautiful, achieve the good.

How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.

In this world

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

Reverend Wright has been my friend and mentor for over 20 years.

Listen, the weather is just like Hillary's explanation for her war vote: we just don't know, do we?

How could I live without powder?

If no one hates it no one really loves it

Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

I'm close to six feet, I like to think.