Jerry Stahl Quotes

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.

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

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.

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

There's no deodorant for desperation.

If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?

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.

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