My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

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.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

The aim of life is to live and to live means to be aware joyously drunkenly serenely divinely aware.

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage I think that lead us from an innocent world of contentment drunkenness and good humor to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

To appear on the stage drunk to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes that was death.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet neither thirsty nor drunken.