I, Fatty
A source page for quotes linked to Jerry Stahl.
“You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.”
“At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.”
“All of us, at some point in life, choose our cliché.”
“I kept getting high to kill my shame at the fact that I kept getting high.”
“There's no deodorant for desperation.”
“Nothing ever turns me on so much in a woman as unhappiness.”
“It's not like I was an alkie or anything. Alcohol is for cleaning needles”
“In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.”
“Rumi will transform you, in ways you didn’t know you needed transforming.”