A True alcoholic is someone who‘s turned from
a cucumber into a pickles
you can try to stop a cucumber from turning into a pickle,
but there‘s no way you can trun a pickle back
into a cucumber.- P174
Drinking alone is enormously self-protective,
at least in theory.
The solitude relieves you of human contact
and the alcohol relieves you of your own thoughts,
of the dark pressure of your own company.
Drinking alone is what you do
when you can‘t stand the feeling of living
in your own skin.- P96
