Brendan Behan Quotes

I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

And I have always told the patients when I talk to them. When they come around and say, 'What will you have to drink? Oh that's right you don't drink.' Just speak up and say, 'Of course I drink. But I just don't drink alcohol.'

I'm a recovering alcoholic so I should be home.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.

I am a recovering alcoholic.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

Yeah, I admit to myself, yeah, I'm an alcoholic.

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

Like many alcoholics, I was a staggering woman in a chic apartment, sick and utterly disgusting.

If you are to be employed by the BBC, you must promise not to get drunk…. You look as if you will be washed out of poetry by whisky.

If you think I'm a drunk, you shoulda seen my old man.

My relationship with alcohol became unsustainable. For people who are going to ask, 'Were you an alcoholic?' I suppose the short answer is 'Yes.'

I went off the rails for a few years with drink and different things.

I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.

Simon Gray, I decided when I first witnessed this frog into prince transformation, did not have a drinking problem. He had a drinking solution.

Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.

Alcohol is the river we sit on the banks of, contemplating. Sometimes we watch ourselves float past, sometimes we watch ourselves sink.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

He was hiding from his problems in a bottle, something that went against every piece of my nature. Me? I couldnʹt let my problems win without a fight.

A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe.