Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage I think that lead us from an innocent world of contentment drunkenness and good humor to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people but then again if you pull a heartstring then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

So after awhile you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

Only weeks after Oslo began when nearly all the world and most of Israel was drunk with the idea of peace I argued that a Palestinian society not constrained by democratic norms would be a fear society that would pose a grave threat to Israel.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

Do It Under the Influence Yourself! That's what we're shooting for! Get drunk and make your dreams come true.

To appear on the stage drunk to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes that was death.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?

I've drunk Amazon's free Diet Coke. Nothing makes more sense to me than a company trying to make bookselling into a profitable business. I'm not anti-Amazon and I'm not pro-publishers either. I'm pro-books.

The best audience is intelligent well-educated and a little drunk.

Man being reasonable must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet neither thirsty nor drunken.

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more But drunk is They who prostrate lies Without the power to drink or rise.

I mean I don't think I'm alone when I look at the homeless person or the bum or the psychotic or the drunk or the drug addict or the criminal and see their baby pictures in my mind's eye. You don't think they were cute like every other baby?

Love with very young people is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.