Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

I thought everybody had to drink to be in this business.

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.

I used to go to the saloons with the baseball players, and while they would drink highballs and gin fizzes and beer, I would take lemonade

Evidence...proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

My wife doesn't drink. I don't think a girl's desire to drink or not has any effect on guys. At all.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

I'd like to help you, but you don't drink.

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

I find drinking really helps.

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

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.'

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

Today, if you're not an alcoholic, you're nobody.

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.

They drink with impunity, or anybody who invites them.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

Liquor drinking is not a wrong; but excessive drinking is.

There was one civil custom used in (and in few but) the English nation, which this gentleman did endeavour to abolish in this country; and that was, the usage of drinking to one another. For although by drinking to one another, no more is meant than an act of courtesie, when one going to drink, does invite another to do so too, for the same ends with himself; nevertheless the governour considered the impertinency and insignifcancy of this usage, as to any of those ends that are usually pretended for it ; and that indeed it ordinarily served for no ends at all, but only to provoke persons unto, unseasonable and perhaps unreasonable drinking, and at last produce that abominable health-drinking.

As regards the use of wine, remember that we drink to quench thirst, and that the limit of moderation is reached when the edge of the intellect is dulled. A boy should be brought up to avoid wine…. Your own countrymen, like all northern peoples, are, I know, sore offenders in this matter of eating and drinking. But I count upon your own innate self-respect to preserve you from such bad example, and to enable you to despise the sneers and complaints of those around you.