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

Sometimes I think life’s nothin’ but sittin’ around watchin’ pretty go bad.

I need – and occasionally love – to write for the same reasons I always did: hard as writing is, it’s generally easier than life.

All my life I’d gone for women who were a little off.

Just because I’d kicked junk, after all, did not mean I’d kicked being a junkie. And junkies lie. It’s their primary addition.

I didn’t really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald’s employee. So there’s always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

I’ve always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

I always figured I myself would never be lucky enough to die, I’d just live on and on in this increasingly dreary spiral.

Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn’t have to show up anywhere. You could work naked.

I don’t really know how to do much else besides write.

I think it’s just too kinda juicy and compelling to imagine people in their private lives, but then half the time people’s private lives are just so much more bizarre and Ted Haggard-like than you could ever imagine. It’s almost hard to write fiction anymore.

You can’t really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person’s addictive behavior is its own special thing.

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

My own theory is that people are just so desperate for somebody they can feel better than, in America. Now that everyone’s going broke and working 17 jobs – if they have one at all – at least they can look at these guys behind bars and think, “At least I get to wear my own clothes to work.”

Still... I would have hugged my mother if we were the kind of family who hugged. If touching her weren’t impossible. If her subnightie waft was not so utterly, fatally repulsive. That’s how much I loved her.

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

This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They’re not killing themselves, they’re killing the world. Either to spare it pain or to cause it some, depending.

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

More and more, I’d been having this feelings of zeroness. Of HERE-I-AM-AND-IT-JUST-DOESN’T-MATTER.

Junkies are liars. They have to be professionally.

The second time I took acid, I watched myself in the mirror for nine hours. What I realized, when I stared, was that my face looked exactly the same when I cried as when I laughed. After awhile I couldn’t tell which I was doing. Relief was just pain inside out.

If you’re here for four more years or four more weeks, you’re here right now. I think when you’re somewhere, you ought to be there. It’s not about how long you stay in a place, it’s about what you do while you’re there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?

Life can be lived as a temporary arrangement. Life is a temporary arrangement! But the longer you go without changing, the more obscure the likelihood you ever will. After enough time passes, the idea of another way of life grows even more misty.

The art and act of writing – speaking just for myself – involves getting your proverbial ass in the proverbial chair.

In my family, misery didn’t just love company, it wanted hostages.

I always tell myself, when I remember the non-stop self-generated hell party that used to be my life, I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t go there.

You may think you don’t want to throw your life away for mere fleeting euphoria. But, once you get a taste, it doesn’t feel so mere. From then on the planet becomes a waiting room. The rest of your life devolves to no more than the time between highs.

For me there was never a lot of glamor involved in being a junkie, it was about trying to hide the puke and bloodstains on my shirt.

There’s no deodorant for desperation.

You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

I’m wearing a diaper. Right now.

Death Anyway meant "What the hell, even Hemingway sucked on a shotgun..." Death Anyway, when you came down to it, meant why in God's name would you want to be Pre-Law, Pre-Med, or Pre-Anything, when any microbe could see that just being alive was no more than Pre-Death.(...) That was the world, to me. If you showed up - if you did what they told you to do - you'd still end up with your skull in bloody gauze or your balls hanging from a branch. So why bother? Nothing mattered. Death anyway...

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The obvious question: Was it better to die now or go on living ashamed of the fact that you were still alive? Why wasn't that on the SATs? Compare and constrast.

Life Quotes

My life - and this hit so hard I nearly toppled over - my life was Apollo 13! Launched with high expectations and pathetically crashed.

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Happiness, to me, was no different than Mom's paprikalaced domino bars: something that looked sweet until you took a bite, and then made you want to vomit.

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Still... I would have hugged my mother if we were the kind of family who hugged. If touching her weren't impossible. If her subnightie waft was not so utterly, fatally repulsive. That's how much I loved her.

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Did I get my picture in the yearbook under "Most Likely to Commit Suicide"?

Humour Quotes Perv - A Love Story Quotes

Did you ever meet someone who either had no sense of humor or was never serious, you couldn't tell which?

Happy Mutant Baby Pills Quotes

Just wanting Nora- wanting something that wasn't a drug- was such a novelty, such a world-changingly unlikely circumstance, I was afraid to breathe for fear it would all turn out to be some near-death hallucination.

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Mom lived in 709. Five doors down from 714, the number they stamped on Quaaludes.

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Maybe the reason you can never go home again is that, once you're back, you can never leave...

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In some odd gush of patriotism, my mother had once vomited on the Liberty Bell, the Statue of Liberty, and a bust of Benjamin Franklin in a single summer, aborting our vacation and causing my father to swear off historical sites until the day he died.

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Women in movies from Hollywood's golden era dressed the way my mother did now. My entire childhood, she'd shown up at PTA meeting in bust-hugging sequins, the sight of which gave my father complicated facial twitches. She was flamboyant, really, in no other way. There was nothing Auntie Mame about her. Unless Auntie Mame had a penchant for public collapse.

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She knew the secret of my creepiness.

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From diapers on, I felt like there was something not good about me, but it was invisible to everybody but my mother. And whenever she looked at me, she had to let me know that she knew. That was her mission in life.

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When life becomes sub-human, sub-humans come alive.

Bad Sex on Speed Quotes

People always ask, "What's the worst thing heroin drove you to do?". I always answer, "showing up on Maury.

Permanent Midnight Quotes

More and more, I'd been having this feelings of zeroness. Of HERE-I-AM-AND-IT-JUST-DOESN'T-MATTER.

Let me tell you something. Boring women get a bad rap. There's a lot to be said for boring women.

What we craved was drugs. What we had was each other.

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