People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws ~ 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

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself ~ Franz Kafka

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware ~ Henry Miller

Payday came and with it beer ~ Rudyard Kipling

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough ~ Ernest Hemingway

The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk they're sober ~ William Butler Yeats

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die, I want to go where they went ~ Will Rogers

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts ~ Allen Ginsberg