it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

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

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.

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

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