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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.
Alcoholism is a dread, an awful, and fatal disease.
I stay in the present, so I don't know about the future.
When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on.
To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.
The word is a sound of some sort and that's where the energy comes from.
Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.
Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
I've avoided work all my life, you see. So, I'm like a bee. I go from flower to flower.
Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.
In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
Whenever I'm broadcasting, I like it. When I'm broadcasting I can't wait to hear what I say.
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.
Democracy to me is letting the other person speak and being dissenting without being disagreeable.
Organized religions have all the facets of organized crime, except the compassion of organized crime.
They don't allow a dying on the highway. No Passing. They give you a ticket if you die on the highway.
Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.
The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.
I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.
Here am I, a human being and that has a body that is getting old. And I only have one, I can't trade it in.
I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.
Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.
I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.
Never make any reference to the other person's family. "You're just like your - " because that is out, completely.
That's one part of oppression is to make sure you are a shameful, shamed human being. That takes care of the past.
If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.
I'm an alcoholic, recovering. And I used to smoke cigarettes, and I was a philanderer and I, wouldn't call myself good.
This is the place for me where every single dream I ever had came to fruition and I love it dearly. I love ya, New York.
I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.
I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all the absurd stuff.
I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.
There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.
I absolutely love the public transportation system in New York. No matter what, no matter how people complain, it is the best in the world.
My purpose in life always has been to avoid work. And I hear these people saying, "I work hard and I pay my taxes." Well, you're an asshole.
There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.
Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public.
The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.
We are spectators to violence, and therefore are, how well we don't know and make sure we don't know the difference of real violence to that of simulation.
To be Irish today is the abandonment of shame and the younger people are moving it out and they're moving the fear away. They're not afraid, they're adventurous.
I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.
I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.
The purpose of the media is to make us all spectators, to watch. So that's why we have millions of fat children watching the games, eating and consuming and not playing themselves.
I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?
When I'm writing in long hand, it just goes on and on and on. When I was in the saloon business, I would just greet people and talk to them and avoid taxes, and getting behind the bar. What else.
I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.