And some of my favorite people have been alcoholics, but the disease turns a lot of people into liars. If you’re an addict, and you tell the truth about what’s happening to you, people will try to get you to stop, and the disease won’t allow you to stop. So the afflicted person will often become a chronic liar, and the people around him will become liars, to cover up for him and to keep him comfortable or keep him calm or employed, or keep themselves safe from him, and I was only a kid, but I thought one of the state’s most eminent loony doctors ought to know these things.
