“The drink you like the best should be the drink you drink the most.”

“Potato fucking poe-tah-toe. God your're testy. Are you on the rag? I tell you what, grab a Midol, and a brownie and call me in five to seven days.”

“Now in those days, my brothers, the teaming up was mostly by fours and fives, these being like auto-teams, for being a comfy number for an auto, and six being the outside limit for gang-size. Sometimes gangs would gang up so as to make like malenky armies for big nightwar, but mostly it was best to roam in these like small numbers.”

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

“She would try to live life one day at a time, like an alcoholic--drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs.”

“Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two good drinks get together and that calls for drinks all around.”

“In the absence of your daily words I still walk tall and strong. One foot in front of the other, my eyes adrift slowly behind them. I have merely walked in circles just trying to hear your voice. I must really miss you .”