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1. "I did not mean to sodomize Dick Cheney." ~ Jerry Stahl
2. "I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high." ~ Jerry Stahl
3. "I know it sounds lame, but I have to dig the way you think, and I have to feel you get me. My whole fucking life, I pretended I could relate to chicks so I could get into their pants. Then once I got in, all I wanted was out again." ~ Jerry Stahl
4. "All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché." ~ Jerry Stahl
5. "I'm so dopesick, my tears taste like urine. It's as if the air itself were made of broken glass. I try to stop twitching. To stay still, to stop my very breath, let the pain stay inside. The slightest movement grinds tiny shards into my pores. Breathing is like gulping from a bag of claws. I want to die. Want to pass out. Want to stop...this...fucking...feeling." ~ Jerry Stahl
6. "There's no deodorant for desperation." ~ Jerry Stahl
7. "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." ~ Jerry Stahl
8. "At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes." ~ Jerry Stahl
9. "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." ~ Jerry Stahl
10. "The thing is, all my heroes were junkies. Lenny Bruce, Keith Richards, William Burroughs, Miles Davis, Hubert Selby, Jr... These guys were cool. They were committed. They would not have been caught dead doing an ALF episode." ~ Jerry Stahl
11. "The point is, everything, bad or good, boils back to the decade on the needle, and the years before that imbibing everything from cocaine to Romilar, pot to percs, LSD to liquid meth and a pharmacy in between: a lifetime spent altering the single niggling fact that to be alive means being conscious. More or less." ~ Jerry Stahl
12. "All my life I'd gone for women who were a little off." ~ Jerry Stahl
13. "This was the history of the world. Recovery and collapse, despair and relief. The dialectic of clean and dirty. Every time is worse than the time before. The bad things come, days and nights and days and nights get so unbelievably fucked up, unbelievably fast, but in the end-- if there is an end-- everybody's best self just slogs forward, one stagger, one fall, one day, one 'what the fuck just happened?' moment of oblivion and soul-broken joy at a time. All we have to do is not die." ~ Jerry Stahl
14. "When in doubt, though, counter with your own cool." ~ Jerry Stahl
15. "Why am I always attracting women who still slept with stuffed animals?" ~ Jerry Stahl
16. "Our eyes kissed..." ~ Jerry Stahl
17. "...it's not what people do, it's what they don't tell you they do. That's what hurts. That's what you think about when the television signs off and you're still bright-eyed and bushy-tailed." ~ Jerry Stahl
18. "I was too busy destroying my life to bother with a minor detail like contractual obligation. I had veins to blow. A child to ignore. Friends to rip off. An apartment I hated on sight to pay for and move into." ~ Jerry Stahl
19. "We weren't touching, but my skin could feel her skin buzzing." ~ Jerry Stahl
20. "It's as if there's a landscape - we'll call it childhood - which exists in our mind. It's completely familiar. Unspeakably familiar. Until in the middle of the night, when the sky is blackest, lightning cracks through the firmament. And in that crush of sound, amid the madness and the blinding flash, you see your world: home, trees, rooftops, your own hand, in an entirely new way. Illumined by fire. Flashed for half a second and then gone. And it's that image, that savage, rip-through-the-curtain vision, that lingers. Not the reality you see every day. Not the world you walk around in. No, it's that spookhouse glimpse, the scorching peek through the blackness, that stays in the brain." ~ Jerry Stahl
21. "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
22. "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." ~ Jerry Stahl
23. "If I closed my eyes, I could almost count those soft hairs on the back of her neck. One day I'd even leaned forward, pretending to drop my pencil, and inhaled her until the top of my head started to steam. A scent of butterscotch wafted off of her, and it was all I could do not to plunge my face into her shag." ~ Jerry Stahl
24. "In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages." ~ Jerry Stahl
25. "Pat Boone still didn't cover public cunt-licks in Tips for Teens, and there really wasn't anybody to ask." ~ Jerry Stahl
26. "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 screaming in the breeze." ~ Jerry Stahl
27. "Mostly what I remember is the way things looked sometimes after I'd push down the plunger, sometimes when I got so high so fast I couldn't even take the needle out of my arm. I just sat back, head lolling on my shoulders like a balloon on a string, and everything, walls, carpet, couch cushion, my own hands, broke down to swirling molecules, reassembled as a million other things, and danced before my eyes before arranging themselves once more as reality. The endless cycle, that dance of molecules and their return to something solid, left me as drained as if I'd flown around the sun with veins for wings." ~ Jerry Stahl
28. "Not until I stopped doing drugs altogether did I feel like a man. Not until I walked out of that fire did I have any idea what the word even meant." ~ Jerry Stahl
29. "This was, I sometimes thought, the last gift my father gave me. And the best: His death stood out as the supreme-o excuse for fucking up, for being a successful fuck-up." ~ Jerry Stahl
30. "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." ~ Jerry Stahl
31. "Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked." ~ Jerry Stahl
32. "There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view of the world." ~ Jerry Stahl
33. "Society has always said: Make money. Artists have said: But there's something else. Cliché City. But in Hollwood there's the Big Lie that you can have both. A lie you want to believe." ~ Jerry Stahl
34. "I'm wearing a diaper. Right now." ~ Jerry Stahl
35. "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." ~ Jerry Stahl
36. "Still holding my breath, I worked the dull point inside and slowly, slowly drew back the stopper, plunged it back in, and exhaled. At last, my grateful spirit eased out of the fetid bag of humanity crumpled in that Japanese car, eased out and drifted overhead, until it floated high over the San Fernando Valley, far away from all these people who just didn't understand, far away and high above the awful circumstance of what now passed for my life." ~ Jerry Stahl
37. "Rec Room! Wow!" My eyes would have glazed over if they hadn't started out that way, pre-glazed. "I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room." ~ Jerry Stahl
38. "To me, God is like this happy bus driver." ~ Jerry Stahl

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