The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left ~ Charles Bukowski

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism ~ Hunter S. Thompson

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution? ~ H. L. Mencken

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it ~ Franz Kafka

It is better to die of drink than to die of thirst ~ John Fante

I never turned to drink. It seemed to turn to me ~ Brendan Behan

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I don't drink anymore, on the other hand I don't drink any less either ~ W.C. Fields

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from ~ Cormac McCarthy

My lips have touched more bottles than lovers and I'm half a shot away from psychotic ~ Denice Envall