“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.”

We must bring our own light to the darkness.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

The tigers have found me and I do not care.

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

My beer drunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

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 guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

It’s true drinkin will kill ya, but if you’re drunk you don’t care.

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don’t smoke or drink.

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

Either give me more wine or leave me alone.

They asked me why I don’t quit drinking, I told ’em I’m not a quitter.

Write drunk; edit sober.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.