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.

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.

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

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

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

Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.

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

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

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

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.

As he brews, so shall he drink.