Cold Turkey (2004)
Context: Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.
“Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.”
“Put another way, the chimpanzees' closest relative is not the gorilla but humans.”
The Third Chimpanzee (1991)
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (1991)
Source: The Republic of Wine (1992), Chapter I, Section 1
“In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.”
Source: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
“A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.”
April 24, 1779, p. 424
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
In a letter written from Markree Castle, Sligo to his wife dated July 4th 1860. Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memoirs https://archive.org/details/charleskingsleyh00kingiala/page/308 (1877)
