~"It gave me everything [...] A reason to live. A reason not to be a dumb-ass. A reason to learn, a reason to breathe, a reason to care. It gave me everything, oh God." (talking about his girlfriend and childs)~

~"I was selling pens. Basically, you're calling people who don't want you to call them. You put on your best fake voice and try to sell them a gross or two of ballpoint pens with their name printed on them. First you say, ' Congratulations. You have just become eligible to win a grandfather clock' - or a trip to Greece or a Jacuzzi or whatever. And I only had success one time. The name I use was Edward Quatermaine, the guy from General Hospital. I said, ' This is Edward Quartermaine. How ya doin' out there today?' It was a whole script. He was from the South, I was from the South, and you talk about pork and stuff like that, and I hooked him. He said, ' Okay, I'm in! And the grandfather clock?' I said. 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.' 'The trip to Greece?' I said, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.' And then I gave it up. I said, ' Listen the grandfather clock is made of corkboard; it's a piece of shit, and you'll never get the trip to Greece - it won't happen. So fuck it, it was nice talking to you.' And he said, 'Okay!' "~

~"He's a hellcat, boy he's something. The best training you can have for toddlers is having spent a number of years out with drunks. Helping them walk, cleaning up there vomit, putting ice on their head when they fall and smack it on a table; the uncontrollable rage and tears and joy all in, like, ten seconds. He's just a cool little drunk." (talking about his son Jack)~

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