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With enough rock in your system, you could hear every noise in the universe.

Pat Boone still didn't cover public cunt-licks in Tips for Teens, and there really wasn't anybody to ask.

This book, for me, is less an exercise in recall than exorcism.

My life - and this hit so hard I nearly toppled over - my life was Apollo 13! Launched with high expectations and pathetically crashed.

Being a junkie, when you broke it down, was nothing more than a crazed day job.

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

What we craved was drugs. What we had was each other.

I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn't be here if I didn't go there.

All my life I'd gone for women who were a little off.

There's no deodorant for desperation.

You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.

I did not mean to sodomize Dick Cheney.

The art and act of writing - speaking just for myself - involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair.

Not doing something crude right off is about as close as a guy like me ever gets to class.

Sometimes what I did five minutes ago scared the fuck out of me five minutes later.

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

Did I get my picture in the yearbook under "Most Likely to Commit Suicide"?

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

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

Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn't know you needed transforming.

We can't live together," I remember screeching. "We're married. It's too corny!

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

People always ask, "What's the worst thing heroin drove you to do?". I always answer, "showing up on Maury.

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

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

I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I'd just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.

How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.

It's not like I ever wanted to wake up and just be a grossly overpaid, self-loathing, can't-look-in-the-mirror-without-gagging TV writer.

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.

Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally.

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.

Creativity is the opposite of TV.

Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.

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

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

More and more, I'd been having this feelings of zeroness. Of HERE-I-AM-AND-IT-JUST-DOESN'T-MATTER.

For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt.

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

Let me tell you something. Boring women get a bad rap. There's a lot to be said for boring women.