Helen Taylor

“A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye

“I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.

Whoever I had become had to die.”
― Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

“My father gave me everything he had. Everything I had I gave to alcohol.”
― Dmitry Dyatlov