I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a day for seven to ten days. Then it would take a few more weeks to get over a vague sort of depression. Then I'd be off on another run.

Weather tonight: dark. Turning partly light by morning.

I think it keeps the child alive in me. There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people.

Somewhere in the world is a doctor who is worse than all other doctors...and someone has an appointment with him in the morning.

I think religion is very anti-man. I think it's a terrible distortion and exploitation of a very natural urge every human has - to be rejoined with the one somehow, to become a part of the universe. Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.

Somebody once said that Hollywood is based on a lot of producers deliberately making bad movies, and every now and then somebody gets lucky.

There was a built-in audience for the rebel in me that had been all along not expressing himself.