I drink to make other people more interesting.

Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, It makes you lean....
Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

Drinking is a way of ending the day

There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life.

That was when you began to hear a lot more about his drinking. And that was when his back flared up on him. He'd always had problems, but the way I heard it, he tripped and fell and after that he had to take morphine and other stuff just to get through the day.

Reading Emerson is like drinking water to me.