Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.
A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don't matter a damn anymore.
Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
Writers will be judged by what they write.
In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.