There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.

When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.