"I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn't want to feel what I was feeling, and a voice within was..."
- Lawrence Block
"blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear, in shadow and out. and on and through everything ever..."
- Barbara Blatner
"In Russia, drunks are our kindest people. Our kindest people are also the most drunk."
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky