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

Moderation in all things.

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.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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.

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

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

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

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

The drunken man is a living corpse.