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

“We must choose between champagne for a few or drinking water for all.”

“One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.”

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

“A wife who preaches in her gown,
And lectures in her night-dress.”

“That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.”

“I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me.”

“If I had all the money I've spent on drink — I'd spend it on drink.”

“I stayed in bed all day yesterday, for instance, while she [Elizabeth Taylor] spent the entire day until well after midnight sitting in the main room, gossiping, etc. And, of course, inevitably sipping away at the drinks… What is more frightening is that she has become bored with everything in life.”

“I drink champagne on two occasions: when I'm in love, and when I'm not. ”