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.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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.

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.