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….

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

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

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

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

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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….

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

There's no deodorant for desperation..

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

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.... ….

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

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

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