Song On a Slow Boat to China.
“I'd stop a train just to watch you get off,
Don't leave me alone with my whiskey thoughts.”
"Whiskey Thoughts", on Whiskey Thoughts (2008) http://www.allmusic.com/album/whiskey-thoughts-mw0000787033 · Video at YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIEA4mjwRik&spfreload=10
Source: She Is the Darkness (1997), Chapter 39 (p. 403)
Source: Black Coffee Blues
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
Song lyrics, Still Crazy After All These Years (1975)
TIME Magazine (21. May 1928) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,731797,00.html
“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”
“If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.”
Source: The Man Called Noon
Source: Under the Volcano (1947), Ch. VII (*p. 200)
Source: The Shining (1977)
Context: Danny? You listen to me. I’m going to talk to you about it this once and never again this same way. There’s some things no six-year-old boy in the world should have to be told, but the way things should be and the way things are hardly ever get together. The world’s a hard place, Danny. It don’t care. It don’t hate you and me, but it don’t love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they’re things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it’s only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don’t love you, but your momma does and so do I. You’re a good boy. You grieve for your daddy, and when you feel you have to cry over what happened to him, you go into a closet or under your covers and cry until it’s all out of you again. That’s what a good son has to do. But see that you get on. That’s your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.
