We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
Henry Miller

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
Gore Vidal

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
W. H. Auden

Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Noel Coward

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
Roald Dahl

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.
Joe DiMaggio

I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.
Payne Stewart

The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
Fran Lebowitz

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
Thomas Babington

Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
Miguel de Cervantes

Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.
Kathy Griffin

I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
Calvin Klein

I drink to forget I drink.
Joe E. Lewis

I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
Joe E. Lewis

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.
Joe E. Lewis

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
Henri Matisse

The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brendan Behan

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
Brendan Behan

I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.
Sebastian Bach