How do you write when you're not miserable? The solution, of course, is to make yourself miserable about not writing.

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

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.

I think there's a phenomenon of people who want to be around something that seems "dangerous." It makes them feel more real.

Creativity is the opposite of TV

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

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