A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.

Life is important. There is nothing to hold onto. A man that drinks is throwing his life away. Don't do it, hold on to your life. There is nothing else to hold on to...