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

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

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.

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

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.

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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

A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

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

Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

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.

The drunken man is a living corpse.