Fields' reply: He'd think I was a sissy.

Christmas at my house is always at least six or seven times more pleasant than anywhere else. We start drinking early. And while everyone else is seeing only one Santa Claus, we'll be seeing six or seven.

Say anything that you like about me except that I drink water.

Yes I do like children ... Girl children...about eighteen or twenty.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.