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

There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield….

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

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

This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it..

All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché..

If you're an asshole, you have an excuse for being an asshole because you're a junkie. But then once you give up the drugs, and you're still an assho….

Jake La Botz is a creator of dark poetry and haunting song, the kind of music that gets in your bones and rides you for days, a sound and vision only….

Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends….

Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness..

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

I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for fuel.... ….

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

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

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

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..

There's no deodorant for desperation..

To me, God is like this happy bus driver..

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

A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger..

The traditional dictionary definition of the difference is that an alcoholic will steal your wallet in a blackout, come to, and apologize for it. A j….