Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.

I look at pastries and cakes, tarts and pies. My body craves sugar, always craves sugar. Years of alcohalism and the high level of sugar in alcohal created the craving, which I feed with candy and soda.

I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.

I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.

But that's part of faith. Believing and knowing despite what other people say, and despite what the world might think of your beliefs.