Bill Clegg on All Things Considered, ‘Portrait of an Addict’: One Man’s Rise and Fall (2010 June 26)
… Addicts often feel like the piece of (beep) at the center of the universe. So you feel like sort of terribly important in some kind of way and terribly unimportant at the same time. You sort of feel like this dastardly monster that somehow, you know, an entire airport security system and probably, you know, federal agents are also pursuing and have a big agenda for. And so I said to the stewardess: Isn’t this a complicated piece of theater for just one person? She politely excused herself and moments later the captain returned with her and they asked me off the flight.
