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.

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

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.

I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.

I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.

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

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.