A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.

If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.

Don't hit women. Never, ever, ever.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.