My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

Never take ecstasy, beer, baccardi, weed, pepto bismol, vivarin, tums, tagamet hb, xanax, and valium in the same day. It makes it difficult to sleep at night.

So many cringes in the heroin binges, I was coming off the hinges, living on the fringes of my imagination.

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

I've seen the needle and the damage done.