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I'm not very optimistic. I mean, do you want me to be like Pangloss and say that this is the best of all possible worlds? I gave up the lithium and I'm trying to stay alive, but I have enough Ambien to kill myself.

That's Screw porn pioneer Al Goldstein, at a reading of his memoir earlier this week. We admire his Boy Scout self-termination preparedness, but we liked him a little better when his spirits (among other things) were higher:

I have not tasted pussy in a year and a half. So I'm going to ask you women out there to sit on my face and let me use your pussy as a breathing apparatus. Let me play a few musical numbers on your clit.

Line forms at the left, ladies.

McNally Robinson Reading Keeps Al Goldstein from Suicide [Daily Intel]

Earlier: Team Party Crash: Al Goldstein Book Launch @ Slipper Room