"Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it."
— Raymond Carver (Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories)

"I spent a lot of money of booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. "
— George Best

"Man cannot live on bread alone. He needs booze too. "
— Theodore P Stein

"The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel."
— Elvis Costello

"When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was something else, possibly a woman; and when he had it all -- cash, booze, and a wife -- he couldn't be distracted from the great emptiness that was always falling through him and never hit the ground."
— Denis Johnson

"People may say what they like about the decline of Christianity; the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die."
— Saki

"'I didn't say I was done with you. You think you want to sleep with me? Let me show you what happens to girls who wake up in my room,' Freddie said.

He saw the fear in her face, but she obeyed. They always did."
— From Altered Beginnings by Destiny Booze

"An invisible fire scorched the bottoms of her hands, the feel reminding her of raw energy and stealth, and she tried to jerk away, unable to do so because the man held her in place. He would surely kill her now. No one touched a lion and lived to tell about it."
— From Predetermined Endings by Destiny Booze

"His glare snapped back on her with enough speed that she shrunk away from him. 'Make no mistake about me,' William said harshly. 'I'm not a good man! I'm a killer; I'm just one with an agency attached to my name.'"
— From Predetermined Endings by Destiny Booze

"A good man would help the two people in the limo because it was the right thing to do; a good man would turn himself in; a good man would beg for his job back; a good man would just let this case go and move on. William wasn't a good man, not anymore. He was on a mission."
— From Predetermined Endings by Destiny Booze

"'We're not really dating per se,' Leigh said.

Nate grinned. 'I wouldn't be so sure about that, pretty lady. I know my brother's tastes and you definitely have the main ingredients. His eyes ate more than his mouth at dinner.'"
— From Altered Beginnings by Destiny Booze

"Ol' bart rarely saw a visitor and had never been more than a hundred miles from home. And he'd only been that far once or twice."
— Peter Jenkins

"Ol' Bart rarely saw a visitor and had never been more than a hundred miles from home. And he'd only been that far once or twice."
— Peter Jenkins

"All during the meal, I kept telling Annie I had eaten in many of the best restaurants in New York, Washington and Boston and never, ever, had I eaten food as good, and pure, and right-out-of-the-earth as hers. Besides, their generosity, humble life-style and loving company brought to this meal a special joy. It was as if the very spirit of their God, whom they honored and held so dear, was transmitted to their food."
— Peter Jenkins

"... she was used to supporting the whole family by herself. She worked the 3-11 pm shift at the yarn mill for 2.80 an hour, and to make extra she did domestic work in wealthy white folks' homes during the day. Although my meager check didn't go far, I bought a lot of nutritious food during my stay there... I put the sweet milk and buttermilk on the littered table. The three boys were at the milk as if they had never seen milk before. There was nothing in the white refrigerator except a plastic container of cherry sugar-packed Kool-Aid and half a loaf of white bread."
— Peter Jenkins