I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

Creativity is the opposite of TV

You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.

For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt.

There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world.

There's no deodorant for desperation.