Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally.

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.

You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success. Or calamitous failure. That can happen too.

Climate change is like my head: it’s not visible in every instance, but I’m pretty darn sure it’s there.

The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

Every war is different. Every war is the same.

People that believe in the Second Amendment and believe in it very strongly were very upset with what Hillary Clinton had to say.

I'm what you'd call a regular guy with a big job.

No one can ask honestly or hopefully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it.

You get used to falling in love with people and having to let them go.

Bringing children into it was just low, I decided. At least heʹd left puppies out.

If we agree to say that those terrorists are indeed Muslim, I have no problem whatsoever to condemn their actions. I won't apologise though, or justify my point of view.