A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

I ruined my health drinking to other people's.

I am a drinker with writing problems.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.