The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon’s gin; out of any businessman’s life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.
—William Bolitho (1890–1930)
Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy a bottle of wine.
—Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)
Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you’ve half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you’re doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street.
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)