Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement.

The best thing about living at the water's edge: You only have assholes on three sides of you, and if they come this way you can hear them splash.

On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

The ritual was very important to me: cleaning the pot, rolling the pot.

I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was kicked out of everything that I didn't quit. Kicked out of schools. Kicked out of summer camp, the Boy Scouts, the altar boys, the choir, and something else that I can't think of, that I'm proud of. Anyway, that was my pattern. I just began to invent myself early in life, and went out and did something about it.

I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted.

Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.