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

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.

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.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.

Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.

Now remember, we've already done more than a billion dollars worth of cuts. We've already done that. So we need to get some credit for that.

Better to separate than never to marry.

There are, in effect, two things, to know and to believe one knows; to know is science; to believe one knows is ignorance.

The End of a long week with Viking Leader AKA DJ Virgo AKA Avicii! So many great songs! #icantwait #revolution

All little girls should be told they are pretty.

He who lives not to others, lives little to himself.