Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

He drank too much when he could get it, ate too much when it was there, talked too much all the time.

Too much Chablis can make you whablis.

Your husband drinks too much if he says he never drinks alone, but considers the goldfish somebody.

I drink too much, way too much; my doctor drew blood he ran a tab!

...You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don't know whether you're going to jump.

If the storm within gets too loud, I take a glass too much to stun myself.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

I drank my liver out.

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy, you collapsed.

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself to finish paintings which do not satisfy me and seem to please so very few others.

You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured from bud into fruit; it deserves reverance. Joy. Gentleness. (Page 194.)

I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.

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.

You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl. "None," I said. "I've heard that about you.

You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

I have been drunk now for over two weeks.

I was in for 10 hours and had 40 pints - beating my previous record by 20 minutes

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

Crack is cheap. I make too much money to ever smoke crack. Let's get that straight. OK? We don't do crack. We don't do that. Crack is whack.

Health - what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.