Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me, and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.

American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot