"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen."
— Charles Bukowski (Women: A Novel)

"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink."
— Charles Bukowski

"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."
— Hunter S. Thompson

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
— Oscar Wilde (Lady Windermere's Fan)

"any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense"
— John Wilmot

"Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated."
— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

"Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change."
— Donatien Alphonse François de Sade

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."
— Henry Miller

"Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end."
— Henry Miller

"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
— Tom Waits

"There ain't no devil, only God when he's drunk."
— Tom Waits

"Well I got a bad liver and broken heart,
yeah,I drunk me a river since you
tore me apart"
— Tom Waits

"Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things."
— Tom Waits