What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

Exercise makes you look better naked. So does Tequila. Your choice.

I have, he went on, betrayed myself withbelief, deluded myself with lovetricked myself with sex.the bottle is damned faithful, he said,the bottle will not lie

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

one doesn't even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn't think ofus, that'sfine.

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.