terry said

..Beyond that, in his twenty-seven years he has piled up a
tall and ugly police record: a multitude of arrests, from petty theft and battery, to rape,
narcotics offenses and public cunnilingus -- and all this without a single felony
conviction, being officially guilty of nothing more than what any spirited citizen might
commit in some drunk or violent moment of animal weakness.
"Yeah, but that rap sheet's all bullshit," he insists. "Most of those charges are
phony. I've never thought of myself as a criminal. I don't work at it; I'm not greedy
enough. Everything I do is natural, because I need to." And then, after a moment: "But I
guess I'm pushin my luck, even if I'm not a criminal. Pretty soon they'll nail me for one of these goddamn things, and then it's goodbye, Terry, for a whole lot of years. I think it's
about time I cut out, went East, maybe to New York, or Australia. You know, I had a
card in Actors' Equity once, I lived in Hollywood. Hell, I can make it anywhere, even if I
am a fuck-up..

cartea aici