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

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.

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently

That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow.

Loneliness means when you have no one to celebrate your success with and share your pains.

White privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost.

To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.

Wine is earth's answer to the sun.

A meter of green is greener than a centimeter.

The Bassbone works great in the studio or on the live stage. Throw it in your gig bag and take it wherever you go.

I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four.