“I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.”

“I gestured at my litre of fizzy red wine. “Want a drop of this?” I asked him.No thanks. I try not to drink at lunchtime.”So do I. But I never quite make it.”I feel like shit all day if I drink at lunchtime.”Me too. But I feel like shit all lunchtime if I don’t.”Yes, well it all comes down to choices, doesn’t it?” he said. “It’s the same in the evenings. Do you want to feel good at night or do you want to feel good in the morning? It’s the same with life. Do you want to feel good young or do you want to feel good old? One or the other, not both.”Isn’t it a tragedy?”

“somehow i always get stronger when i'm on my second drink”

“It's pretty hard hiding the fact that you're on your own at lunchtime, when you're on your own at lunchtime.”

“I drink screwdrivers because they help me unwind.”

“Sometimes imagination imagination weighs you down, or it can lift you up, but it always helps you live life; whether in this world or your own.”