This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.

God knows I had not wanted to fall in love with her. I had not wanted to fall in love with any one. But God knows I had and I lay on the bed in the room of the hospital in Milan and all sorts of things went through my head but I felt wonderful...

One minute, I'm a tragically average, fair and freckled eighth-grader with algebra homework. The next, I'm one who has swallowed liquor. I'm a rebel. I'm a line-crosser.

Cheap liquor is a magic potion that can turn you into a puppet cowboy before it kills you.

But immobilizing darts don't bring on sleep gently, like a good cup of tea; they knock out like a bottle of hard liquor straight up.

And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.