“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.”

“Caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.”

“I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.”

“The Sierra becomes an addiction, addiction to common sense simplicity and an awareness of living in the now.”

“Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.”

“Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency.”