Wishful Drinking

by Carrie Fisher

If my life wasn’t funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

But I think if you have the expectation that you’re going to be happy throughout your life—more to the point, if you have a need to be comfortable all the time—well, among other things, you have the makings of a classic drug addict or alcoholic.

The first time I did drugs was when I was thirteen.

Anyway, how would I know which was post-traumatic stress, which is addiction, which is bipolar, which is Libra?

“Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.”