Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing

The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.