Lady bartenders live a tougher life than anybody knows.
Consideration touches more deeply and longer than passion.
I try to stay two drinks ahead of reality and three behind a drunk
I have learned some things. Modern life is warfare without end: take no prisoners, leave no wounded, eat the dead--that's environmentally sound.
I had done either too much coke or too little, a constant problem in my life.
When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.