“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”

“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.”

“My only regret involved the sad knowledge that I could not handle the amount of alcohol I would have enjoyed. “Easy is the descent into Hell.”

“Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.”

“Alcoholism is...an incurable disease. You will have it for life. Just like you can't turn a pickle back into a cucumber.”

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs.”