I am becoming used to an overwhelming, grinding mixture of anger and worry...

David Sheff


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At my worst, I even resented Nic because an addict, at least when high, has a momentary respite from his suffering. There is no similar relief for parents or children or husbands or wives or others who love them.

David Sheff


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A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.

David Sheff

Mots clés beautiful-boy



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An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.

David Sheff


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He had black fingernails and drove a hearse. Everything about him cried out, 'Look at me, look at me,' and when you looked at him, he would snap, 'Who the fuck are you looking at?' If you subscribe to the idea that addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children- paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets.

David Sheff


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Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.

David Sheff


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We deny the severity of our loved one's problem not because we are naive, but because we can't know.

David Sheff


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... Gunpei Yokoi, asked his boss, 'What should I make?' Nintendo chief executive Hiroshi Yamauchi replied, 'Something great.'

Game Over Nintendo's Battle to Dominate Videogames

David Sheff

Mots clés motivational inspirational work leadership



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Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

David Sheff


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When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

David Sheff


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