Jim Carroll Quote

The advertise their products in such a fashion as to make it seem wonderful to drink their ethanol products. It does not matter if they give their products fancy name like Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot...

I'd hoped for someone who was remarkably intelligent, but disadvantaged by home circumstance, someone who only needed an hour's extra tuition a week to become some kind of working-class prodigy. I wan...

Who ever thought to put the word "hero" in heroin?

If those underlying conditions aren't treated, the return of those symptoms may cause us so much discomfort that we'll go back to using addictive drugs or alcohol to obtain relief. That's the primary...

It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.

A junkie spends half his life waiting.

I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not, like alcohol or weed, a means of increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life.

Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.

The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.

Burroughs ... his very junkhood an accomplishment beyond a million dollars.