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

I need - and occasionally love - to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it's generally easier than life.

I used to say, for me, writing was like walking a high wire, and heroin made me forget there was no net. Which is a fancy way of saying dope made me forget how shitty I felt for being on dope.

I don't really know how to do much else besides write.

Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.

A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.

There's no deodorant for desperation.