The next thing you know the sun is up and fuckin’ birds are cheepin’. Comin’ on happy at six in the morning for Chrissakes. I pursued a life of crime because I hate daylight. It’s just about that simple. When you hate daylight, when you hate anything, you will develop a certain ambiguity about life and you get reckless in your habits. You overeat. You take dope. You fall in love with a bad person. You take a job you hate. You declare war against society. You do any number of things that don’t cut any ice when you try to explain your motivation in a court of law or to a doctor, to a dentist, or to the kids on your block who hate you for having a new car. God didn’t take me out when I was ready. I was ready but the next thing birds are cheepin’ and somehow you find that you just have to go on.

I didn’t even think I was listening at the time but after chop-a-leg I was at the clinic. I heard this doctor say, yeah, yeah, he knew this intern who had high cholesterol. A young guy with a 344. So what this guy does is eats oatmeal three times a day. He puts some skim milk on it to make a complete protein and in three months his cholesterol drops down to 25. Twenty-five! I didn’t think I was listening but it registered later. Come back to me.