I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.

Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas