The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane. Respect rather than fear. There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything.
It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people.
I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.