The secretiveness. The stealth. Those were obviously the aspects of cocaine use I was addicted to.

Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

You don’t see many of these white anti-abortion women volunteering to have any black fetuses transplanted into their uterus’s, do you? No, you don’t see them adopting a whole lot of crack babies, do you? No, that might be something Christ would do.

Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason

When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.