After a while, the cocaine - I didn't have any friends. I was just alone and I didn't even like myself.

Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle.

All I can say is that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.

People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.

I hope there's a life after life - and maybe I can even come back again and get on another train, and ride and gain some more wisdom.

I was snorting a lot of cocaine and I had lost myself to a great degree. A lot of people, everybody was starting to realize what the coke was all about and they were all starting to get lost.

Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.

Nixon wasn't really considered the president by the youth of America. He was considered to be a fraud and which he proved himself to be.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.

The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.

Ill seemes (sayd he) if he so valiant be, That he should be so sterne to stranger wight; For seldom yet did living creature see That courtesie and manhood ever disagree.

Ram it up your poop chute.

I drink for comradeship, and when I drink for comradeship, I don't bother to keep count.

The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.

To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

Faithful horoscope-watching, practiced daily, provides just the sort of small but warm and infinitely reassuring fillip that gets matters off to a spirited start.

One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about.