Patrick McGrath Quote

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

Put down your glass, it is time to dance. If you want to get drunk all you need is to drink love. Put down your pipe and do away with these childish toys. If you want to get high all you need is to br...

Attempts to locate oneself within history are as natural, and as absurd, as attempts to locate oneself within astronomy. On the day that I was born, 13 April 1949, nineteen senior Nazi officials were...

To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems

AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking, but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are...

Alcohol is good at disinfecting things It can clean a surface or erase memories

There has never been any art or literature without drink and there never will be....Unless something is done about the matter [prohibition] this country is going to the dogs. There has been no develop...

99% of all problems can be solved by money -- and for the other 1% there's alcohol.

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.