I was a stonehead for 30 years. I'd wake up in the morning and if I couldn't decide whether I wanted a joint or not, I'd smoke a joint to figure it out. And I stayed high all day long.

A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth.

We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment.

This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal.

Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.

Weather tonight: dark. Turning partly light by morning.

In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose.