“I’ve been a cashier at hetero and homo adult theaters, porno actor, live sex show performer ... This arti­cle is about my friends (and enemies) who hustle guys on the Deuce”

“Motherfucking drug dealers. They want me to kill myself. They always smiling, saying, ‘Hey, Charlie, how many? You got my money?’ Nah, I can’t do it. It’s a fuckin’ nightmare.”

“In the ’80s, it was ‘Morning in America’ and we woke up to find that our night­mares were real: it became the Decade of the Quick and the Dead.”