“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”

“When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.”

“Write drunk, edit sober.”

“What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.”

“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”

“It always falls on the sober to pay for the sins of the drunk.”

“In actual fact, no man is honest when sober; in actual fact, you cannot believe a single word that a sober man says. I wish I were drunk myself.”

“Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.”

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”

“Yes, but the people would prefer John A. drunk to George Brown sober.”