what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.