“Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.”

“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.”

“It was an okay vintage, if you could get past the fact that it was wine, and—stripped of the ability to get drunk on it—wine was just sour grape juice.”

“If the Blues were wine, I'd be drunk all the time.”

“Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.”

“She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.”

“And with glorious triumph, they
Rode through England proud and gay,
Drunk as with intoxication
Of the wine of desolation.”

“Laughter for the soul, and wine for the body.”

“It is the hour to be drunken! To escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”

“You see, my children, when the corn is ripe it must be cut; when the wine is drawn it must be drunk.”