“Humans are all too happy to keep company until the company turns out to be less appealing than solitude.”

“Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn’t they? Every day an intelligent human being is plagued with bills, horrifying news stories and general idiocy that slowly grinds away at their psyche, breaking off pieces of it that may never fit again.”

“Humans are all too happy to keep company until the company turns out to be less appealing than solitude.”