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.

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.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

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

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.

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.

Moderation in all things.

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

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

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

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.