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

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

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

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

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

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

What we craved was drugs. What we had was each other. — Jerry Stahl

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. — Jerry Stahl

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

There's no deodorant for desperation. — Jerry Stahl

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. — Jerry Stahl

I did not mean to sodomize Dick Cheney. — Jerry Stahl

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

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

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

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

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

To me, God is like this happy bus driver. — Jerry Stahl

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Jerry Stahl

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

Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally. — Jerry Stahl

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

Creativity is the opposite of TV. — Jerry Stahl

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

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

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

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

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. — Jerry Stahl

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

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