I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.

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.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

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

I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.

When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.

To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.