"If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up."

"We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that kills, now it's the speed that saves. Cocaine is a hell of a drug."

"I was never a big fan of the '60s. I was always a little bit ahead of them."

"I'd rather be a live dog than a dead lion."

"The only honest way to write about yourself is to tell the truth, even if it's ugly."