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

- Jerry Stahl

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

- Jerry Stahl

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…

- Jerry Stahl

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

- Jerry Stahl

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…

- Jerry Stahl

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

- Jerry Stahl

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

- Jerry Stahl

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…

- Jerry Stahl

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…

- Jerry Stahl