Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.

We only know how to lose and be lost.

I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.

And believe me, a good piece of chicken can make anybody believe in the existence of God.

Certainly I'm angry at the way Indians have been treated and continue to be treated. But I don't think it's a helpless emotion.

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

That's one more thing people don't know about Indians: We love to talk dirty.