Wayne Purvis

“I know that good Muslims didn't smoke weed or snort coke or drink champagne but I was going through an awful lot of shit. I'm sure Allah knew that my shit was just overwhelming and that I wasn't strong enough then to deal with it”
― Mike Tyson

“Even when they're not stoned, adolescents live in a world of ideation of their own making and follow trains of thought to extreme conclusions, despite overwhelming evidence that they're just plain wrong”
― Marc Lewis, Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines his Former Life on Drugs

“When a country goes to war, it acts like a sociopath. It sends people like me out in the woods to do the most evil things we can think of, but everybody else pretends like they're on the side of the angels. The reality is, if the angels want to win, it takes the devil to succeed.”
― Jon Roberts, American Desperado: My Life--From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset

“Getting a little sober is as unrealistic as being a little bit pregnant”
― Paul Campbell, I'll Stop Tomorrow