The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time.

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it.

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, "Get this asshole outta here!"

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

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it.

One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you put 'em at ten o'clock and two o' clock. Never mind that . I put mine at 9:45 and 2:17. Gives me an extra half hour to get where I'm goin'.