A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché.

It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles

I don't really know how to do much else besides write.

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.

If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.

For those in love with an illusion often refuse to accept reality

I think the most important thing in life is your health. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

That's what every uncomfortable feeling is for-that's what pain is for, what money is for, what everything in the world is for: your self-realization.

To develop good thoughts and acts, we must live and associate with good people.

My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.

After my first record came out, I read everything. I was so amazed that I was in the press.

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

Cheeses crusty, got all musty, got damp on the stone of a peach.