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

As he brews, so shall he drink.

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation.

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

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

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

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

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.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

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

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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.