People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.

Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

The drunken man is a living corpse.

Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

As he brews, so shall he drink.