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.

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

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

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

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

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.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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.

I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

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

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