“It is better to be addicted to opium than to be addicted to money.”

“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.”

“I never met an addict who came from a nice home. I've met addicts that came from families that had money and nice houses. But never from a nice home.”

“There's nothing more addictive than being a god.”

“Addictions - Run to Jesus instead of running to your addiction.”

“If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism…. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.”

“Our teenage “druggies” are habituated to drugs rather than addicted. While beer and other alcoholic beverages are preferred drugs, kids have simply not used alcohol long enough to become addicted. The other drug of preference – marijuana – is not addictive.”

“Be mindful of addictions. Any addiction, over time becomes your downfall.”

“All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation.”

“I am not addicted to gambling although I am addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.”