AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking," but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are willing to publicly declare themselves to be alcoholics or addicts and who are willing to give up their inherent right of independence by declaring themselves powerless over addictive drugs and alcohol, as stated in Step One, "We admitted we are powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable.

— Chris Prentiss

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing

— Tennessee Williams

After all these years, his best friend is malaria. Even on the brink of an Alaska summer, it comes calling: a bone-deep chill one night, a ministry of sweat the next. Calling him back to old battles.

— Louis Bayard

Alcohol does not solve problems but becomes a problem in itself

— Amit Abraham

Alcohol has its own well-know defects as a medication for depression but no one has ever suggested - ask any doctor - that it is not the most effective antianxiety agent yet known.

— Joan Didion

Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

— David Stafford

Alcoholism is a choice... not a life sentence.

— David Norman

Alcoholism is a Curse

— honeya

Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.

— Irene Tomkinson

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana