• Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

    Joan Acocella: Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.
    "A Few Too Many" by Joan Acocella, www.newyorker.com. May 26, 2008.