The piano has been drinking, not me.
—Tom Waits

Nothing bonds two solitary individuals like a good shared drunk. This is a scientific fact. It’s important, even necessary for the long-term welfare of the planet to get good and shit-faced with your neighbor every now and then.
—Sol Luckman

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.
—Leslie Jamison

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.
—Desi Arnaz

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.
—Martin Scorsese

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.
—Terry Goodkind

Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it’s hard to stop drinking beer.
—Billy Carter

Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
—Mercedes McCambridge

When a woman drinks it’s as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It’s a slur on the divine in our nature.
—Marguerite Duras

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
—William S. Burroughs