“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”

“Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.”

“He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.”

“What are you going to do? "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.”

“Dick walked beside her, feeling her unhappiness, and wanting to drink the rain that touched her cheek.”

“Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.”