For most normal folks, drinking means conviviality, companionship and colorful imagination. Perhaps our trouble was not that we used our imagination.

There's nothing the matter with constructive imagination; all sound achievement rests upon it.

When such thoughts break in, we might recall, a little ruefully, how much store we used to set by imagination as it tried to create reality out of bottles.

In imagination the gleaming center was to go up several stories more, but three would do for a start.

Perhaps the real trouble was our almost total inability to point imagination toward the right objectives.

Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)