The hotel bar was quiet and dark, with the kind of mood that promotes good talk and serious drinking.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the grey-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasant of Italy. Never drink because you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world.

Day drinking with a broken heart
is like selling loose Cuban cigars like Newports,
tryna leave the country without passports,
and putting yourself in a situation you can’t handle.

A woman drove me to drink. I don't drink and drive.

Need 'nether whiskey. Whiskey chaser. Gotta get two men drunk.'

Mr. Cohan placed both hands on the bar. 'Mr. Walsh,' he said severely, 'in Gavagan's we will serve a man a drink to wet his whistle, or even because his old woman has pasted him with a dornick, but a drink to get drunk with I do not sell. Now I'm telling you you've had enough for tonight, and in the morning you'll be thanking me...' ("My Brother's Keeper")

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