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

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.

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.

In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.

Tears don't hurt like the ache does.

There is no power greater than the power of passive dependency.

You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

The establishment isn't new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives, isn't anything new.

If one was to think constantly of death, the business of life would stand still

The Divine Truth is greater than any religion or creed or scripture or idea or philosophy.