Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.

If you're an asshole, you have an excuse for being an asshole because you're a junkie. But then once you give up the drugs, and you're still an asshole, that's problematic.

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.

All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché.

It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles

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

This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it.