Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Standing at this liquor store Whiskey coming through my pores Feeling like I run this whole block

Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free.