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

Life can be lived as a temporary arrangement. Life is a temporary arrangement! But the longer you go without changing, the more obscure the likelihood you ever will. After enough time passes, the idea of another way of life grows even more misty.

If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?

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

In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

All my life I'd gone for women who were a little off.

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.