My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.

I was fairly poorbut most of my money wentfor wine andclassical music.I loved to mix the twotogether.

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on