When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvellous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

A job on a newspaper is a special thing. Every day you take something that you found out about, and you put it down and in a matter of hours it becomes a product. Not just a product like a can or something.

I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

There is no other reason for his fame.

Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.

Speaks cheerful English and in the past has written this language with a paintbrush that talks.