As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man’s true character, make him drunk.

There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

The drunken man is a living corpse.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

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

Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

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