- when you're up, it's never as good as it seems and when you're down, you never think you're gonna be up again
- I needed to get as far away as possible
- California was like nothing I'd seen before. people were liberated, independent, full of new ideas
- and everyone was getting stoned
- we worked hard, we played hard, didn't have a care in the world. it was perfect
- we're gonna wind up like us
- "may the wind always be at your back and the sun upon your face" "and may the winds of destiny carry you aloft.." "to dance with the stars"
- "do you have a dream, george?" "well, I would if I could get some fucking sleep" "you have a dream. and maybe you will accomplish it, but yet you have failed. why?" "because I got caught" "no, manito. you failed because you had the wrong dream"
- I went in with a bachelor of marijuana, came out with a doctorate in cocaine
- the trick is to imagine every little detail, anything to keep your mind off the fact that you're going to jail (...)
- in fact, if you only snorted cocaine in the late 1970s or early 80s, there was an 85% chance it came from us
- "i love it" "pardon me?" "i give you 30 millions dollars and you give me this little book"
- "why are you smiling?" "why are you smiling?" "i don't know. i'm george"
- "how much bigger can we get?" "the sky's the limit. it's accepted my actors and musicians. everybody else will follow"
- she could party like a man and love like a woman
- we were young, rich and in love. nothing could stop us. it was perfect
- same kid would jump off a mountain if someone told him he couldn't do it
- it's good if it makes you happy
- it was the greatest feeling I ever had, followed abruptly by the worst feeling I ever had
- I'm the only man who gets busted by waiters
- "you are my heart. could i live without my heart?" "i hope not"
- "what do you want me to say? I'm in prison. you should know you're the one who put me in here" "I knew you would say something like that. always thinking about yourself"
- I thought you couldn't live without your heart
- I was busted. Set up by the FBI and the DEA. That didn't bother me. Set up by Kevin Dulli and Derek Forreal to save their own asses. That didn't bother me. Sentenced to 60 years at Ottisville. That didn't bother me. I'd broken a promise. Everything I love in my life goes away.
- The official toxicity limit for humans is between one and one and half grams of cocaine depending on body weight. I was averaging five grams a day, maybe more. I snorted ten grams in ten minutes once. I guess I had a high tolerance.
- So in the end, was it worth it? Jesus Christ. How irreparably changed my life has become. It's always the last day of summer and I've been left out in the cold with no door to get back in. I'll grant you I've had more than my share of poignant moments. Life passes most people by while they're making grand plans for it. Throughout my lifetime, I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost not enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent. There are no more white horses or pretty ladies at my door.
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