Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

Plucked her eyebrows on the way, shaved her legs and then he was a she. She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

They tied his arms behind his back to teach him how to swim, they put blood in his coffee and milk in his gin.

Over what guilty spirit to not hear the beating, to not hear the beating, but only tears of perfect moan, only tears of perfect moan.

What I really love is my scotch. It's the power, the power of positive drinking.

I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.