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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher

Of man’s wit and his discretion.

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.

The drunken man is a living corpse.

Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.

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.