
“I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.”
On tapes for Ciao! Manhattan
Edie : American Girl (1982)
Context: I'm a little nervous about saying anything about "the Artist" because it kind of sticks him right between the eyes, but he deserves it. Warhol really fucked up a great many people's - young people's - lives. My introduction to heavy drugs came through the Factory. I liked the introduction to drugs I received. I was a good target for the scene; I blossomed into a healthy young drug addict.
“I'm a reading addict. I can't live without it, like someone who is addicted to drugs.”
Miller Newton (1981). ‘’Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease,’’ American Studies Press, Tampa, FL, pg 30.
On Teenage Drug Use
“Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?”
From 6/28/2010 Colbert Report
“Expressing oneself is like a drug. I’m so addicted to it.”
2000-09, The Bold and the Beautiful, 2009
Dr. Kent Hovind Bible Study Mathew 13: 54-58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBLyb2LxoyM, Youtube (September 29, 2016)
“The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.”
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
“What theology that would have been, a god self-worshipping, a drug addicted to itself.”
Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 18 (p. 239)
Caption to a cartoon drawn by Roger Law, published in The Observer (8 July 1962)