Berg, while the go-to guy for decisions for past campaigns, engaged in frequent and successful battles against sobriety.

Alcohol helps you to loosen up to make memories you won’t forget, and then it helps you to forget them completely.

If we could all drink ourselves to innocence, I’d be guilty. And I mean that in a way that I don’t mean that.

She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.

A fuel pump is a fountain drink machine for cars. And people who want to save the environment and get drunk and run to work.

You have had me spinning for days, for I am drunk off the words that flow endlessly from your deep red lips that taste of wine.

I just invented a device that eliminates vice. It looks like a bottle of booze, only it’s empty, because I just drank it.

For the celebration I got champagne flutes, even though I’m not musical. That night I felt like Mozart. He was a drunk, right?

excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand.

But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one

My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all three of these realities.

When I die, remember to remove my body from the cooler before you start making the hunch punch. But by all means, do get drunk on my memory.

A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper hats, new couples falling from couches and love- seats—the pleasure remembered, never the regret.