“I was drunk.”

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

““Am I drunk?" he asked Crewcut. "You're not drunk, Boss," Crewcut replied. "How could a superior individual like you be drunk? People around here who get drunk are the dregs of society, illiterates, uncouth people. Highbrow folks, those of the 'spring snow,' cannot get drunk. You're a highbrow, therefore you cannot be drunk.””

“Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk.”

“I have drunk and seen the spider.”

“It would be pleasant to be drunk:
faithless to my tongue and hands,
giving up the boundaries
for the heroic gin.
Dead drunk is the term I think of,
insensible,
neither cool nor warm,
without a head or foot.
To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.
I will try it shortly.”

“You're a beautiful drunk, daughter.
But you're a drunk.”

“I should have drunk more champagne.”

“I was weeping again, drunk on the impossible past.”

“I was only the returned Oriental eccentric, drunk at that…”