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

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.

The drunken man is a living corpse.

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

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.

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.

Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

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.

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

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

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