I thought cocaine was a fantastic drug. A wonder drug, like everybody else. It gave you [an] energy burst. You could stay awake for days on end, and it was just marvelous and I didn't think it was evil at all. I put it almost in the same category as marijuana, only hell of a lot better. It was a tremendous energy boost. It gave the feeling, a high, but nobody knew, well maybe a small percentage of people knew. But eventually everybody knew how evil it really was.

People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.

Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.

May the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face, and the winds of destiny carry you aloft to dance with the stars.

Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it.

Any marijuana transaction I ever did with anyone, there were never any guns involved, ever.

If somebody had come to me and said will you move heroin, I would have told them no.