Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

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

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

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

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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.

I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.

Moderation in all things.

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

Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

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.

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.