In TV today, you can say I pricked my finger, but you can't say it the other way around.

I do something about the weather. I stay home.

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

My father and mother separated when I was two months old.

Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are.

The ending of my experience with cocaine came in a periodic way. I would get high less frequently, I would use smaller amounts, and I would do coke for less periods of time. And that process just kept increasing and increasing until I wasn't using it at all. I didn't go on a program anywhere. I didn't join an organization or detox anywhere. I just slowly tapered off until it was gone. That was also true of my heavy pot use. I just tapered off until there was almost no use at all. And the same thing was true of drinking tons of beer.