Gillian Flynn Quotes

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

I think in the modern world we really need to have movie theaters or places we can go in and rejuvenate ourselves. I think we'll have less problems with our souls and our health. I do that in my life, and I feel healthy and happy. I need those hours in the darkness where I used to spend time as a kid, sitting in a little closet in the darkness, listening to AM radio, having glowing paint that I illuminated, just sitting there, dreaming about anything, not being disturbed for an hour or two, just alone in the dark. I'm still that little boy in my brain.

A scotch buzz is the best buzz in the world.

Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have.

That corner of the world smiles for me more than anywhere else.

I'd catch moonlight in a bottle, if we could drink a toast to happiness.

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will.

In Mississippi the important thing is hooch, not bar equipment.

What exactly did people do when they had all the time in the world and could do whatever they liked?

To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace

Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood. I'd just like to be an image that reminds someone of joy rather than of the problems of the world.

I never turn down a drink. Among friends it’s always appropriate. A man is only a man as they say, but brandy is still brandy. You’ll find that in the Talmud too.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

[T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

Nick: "Don't you think maybe a drink would help you to sleep?" Nora: "No, thanks." Nick: "Maybe it would if I took one.

Today I create a stress-free world for myself.

There are three cures for ennui: sleep, drink and travel.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.

Think beer; drink beer.

Wasting away again in Margaritaville, searching for my lost shaker of salt.