חופש מ"המלך אלכוהול"

…אל-לנו להניח ולוּ לרגע שאיננו נמצאים תחת אילוץ… העריץ הקודם שלנו, המלך אלכוהול, הוא תמיד בקרבת מקום, מוכן לשוב וללפות אותנו אל חיקו. לכן הכרחי שנשיג חופש מאלכוהול, אחרת נשתגע או נמות.


AS BILL SEES IT, p. 134

When drinking, I lived in spiritual, emotional, and sometimes, physical confinement. I had constructed my prison with bars of self-will and self-indulgence, from which I could not escape. Occasional dry spells that seemed to promise freedom would turn out to be little more than hopes of a reprieve. True escape required a willingness to follow whatever right actions were needed to turn the lock. With that willingness and action, both the lock and the bars themselves opened for me. Continued willingness and action keep me free—in a kind of extended daily probation—that need never end.