…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a long time. Writers only like to sniff their own turds. I am one of those. I don't even like to talk to writers, look at them or worse, listen to them. And the worst is to drink with them, they slobber all over themselves, really look piteous, look like they are searching for the wing of the mother. I'd rather think about death than about other writers. Far more pleasant.

...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.

when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.