“Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.”

“A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom”

“Sick is a relative concept. Were all sick. The question is, what degree of functionality do we have with respect to the rules society sets for desirable behavior? No actions are in themselves sympt...”

“What do we mean by crazy? What do we mean by mad? At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are...”

“. We have this attitude that people become drug addicts against their will. That they couldnt possibly want this kind of life. But maybe thats not true. Maybe they dont want to live like other peop...”

“There was a gay man who lived nearby when I was growing up, Harry recounted. He must have been forty or so, lived alone, and everyone in the neighbourhood knew he was gay. In the winter we threw sn...”

“The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the fla...”

“Disillusioned, people simply carried out their work as intended, drinking away sobriety at the end of each hard shift and repeating the process until death.”

“My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.”

“Ya got cigarettes? she asks. Yes, I say,I got cigarettes. Matches? she asks.Enough to burn Rome. Whiskey?Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River of pain. You drunk? Not yet.”

“For one more time, he decided to give away smoking.And then, she happened one more time in his head.”

“Interesting" people were her favorite hobby. She collected them: the type who did gay things late at night and smoked cigarettes in mixed company, those would have most scandalized her own mother.”

“The world we have created, has problems, that can not be resolved by rich getting richer but by sharing we can over come the problems" Dr. Ron Harris - 2008”

“If ignorance about the nature of pain is widespread, ignorance about the way pain-killing drugs is even more so. What is not generally understood is that many of the vaunted pain-killing drugs conc...”

“Suppose I stopped taking aspirin and phenylbutazone? What about the pain? The bones in my spine and practically every joint in my body felt as though I had been run over by a truck. I knew that pai...”