of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.

I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.