“A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics – it's the only way in which to make them important.”

“Every man has a long list of things that should be done, but which he knows can't be done. Yet he continues to talk about them as long as he lives.”

“The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.”

“A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.”

“When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle.”

“Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them!”

“it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”

“Man cannot, properly speaking, make circumstances for his purpose, but he always has it in his power to improve them when they occur…”

“One should always be drunk. That's all that matters… But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”

“A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.”