“Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.”

“Do you drink?"
"Of course, I just said I was a writer.”

“Vodka is a very deceptive drink, because you drink it and you think, "What is this? This is pointless! It's— you can't taste it, you can't smell it… Why did we waste our money on this, bloody— why are we on a traffic island?"”

“He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.”

“I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell,
I’m not the man to insist on asphodel.
This sounds like a He-fellow, don’t you think?
It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.”

“Let us drink and enjoy together the wine you have brought:
For my course is set and cannot now be altered.”

“I watched the grey villages limp by, the wind tearing at torn posters of long-done events. What I needed, of course, was a drink.”

“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood”

“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”

“The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.”