All Jerry Stahl Quotes
- 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… Another Way
- I think that a lot of people are in love with stress. It's the dirty little secret of Western civilization. People often mistake stress for… Another Bad
- Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness. Ever Turns
- It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles Alcohol
- Creativity is the opposite of TV Creativity
- 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… Been
- The Adderall Diaries is phenomenal. With jittery finesse and a reformed tweaker's eye for detail, Stephen Elliott captures the terrifying, hilarious, heart-strangling reality of a… Absolutely
- 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… Believe
- 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… Became
- Half the reason I turned into a writer is you didn't have to show up anywhere. You could work naked. Anywhere
- I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room. Always Wanted
- A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger. Drifted
- 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… Blanket
- In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages. Company
- 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… Acid
- Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming. Didn
- To me, God is like this happy bus driver. Bus
- 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.… Any
- At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes. All
- All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché. All
- 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… Becomes
- I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high. Fact
- This is what I think: If you had the nerve to live what you lived, you should have the nerve to write it. Live
- There's no deodorant for desperation. Deodorant