Best on Booze, Birds, and Fast Cars

April 23rd, 2008

“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”

— George Best

Abrahams on Book Tours

April 21st, 2008

“The best advice on touring I ever got came from the publisher of my children’s mystery books . . . Very simple advice. She said, ‘Use the minibar.’”

— Peter Abrahams

Hughes on One Kind of Drunk

April 4th, 2008

“He was the kind of drunk whose wits accumulate as the spirit level rises.”

— Declan Hughes, The Price of Blood

Hughes on All the Drinks

April 4th, 2008

“We had all the drinks. Dublin town ran out of drinks. And you said you had the last of the drinks back here.”

— Dave Donnelly in Declan Hughes’s The Price of Blood

Hughes on Creation

April 2nd, 2008

“I don’t know about Tommy’s, but mine tasted like the first pint God made.”

— Declan Hughes, The Price of Blood

Hughes on Amateurs

March 15th, 2008

“Amateurs want the weekend to keep going on Sunday. Monday is pro’s night, real terminal cases.”

— Ed Loy in Declan Hughes’s The Price of Blood

Hughes on Writers

March 4th, 2008

“Everyone knows writers are all badly-dressed overweight cantankerous faux-humble alcoholics with a chip on each shoulder and a grudge against the world. And that’s just the women.”

— Jackie Tyrell in Declan Hughes’s The Price of Blood

A Wake without Booze

February 24th, 2008

The irascible Jack Shafer writes in praise of booze in the newsroom.

It’s easy to reduce all of what is wrong with American journalism to the near industrywide ban on booze in the newsroom. So I will.

Hear, hear!

Caen on Martinis

February 7th, 2008

“Martinis are like breasts, one isn’t enough, and three is too many.”

— Herb Caen

Felten on Vodka

January 17th, 2008

“There’s no vodka drink that can’t be made better by using gin instead.”

— Eric Felten