I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.

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

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

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.

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.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

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

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

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

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