E. B. White Quotes

Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

Beer would be a great help in fighting off the mental depression which afflicts great multitudes.

I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

The plan was to drink until the pain is over, But what's worse, the pain or the hangover?

I would lock myself in my room and drink a case of Corona and smoke a load of pot.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

I drink to forget I drink.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

Drunkenness was extremely common… It seemed for many the only refuge from depression and misery. The effect of drunkenness upon the ordinary relationship of husband and wife, parents and children, was disastrous.

My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

I be getting high just to balance out the lows.

Many times drugs and alcohol - there's a technical term that they're called, emotional suppressants - are the only things that can help a person survive and get through and be able to deal with their pain.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

The real question is why are millions of people so unhappy, so bored, so unfulfilled, that they are willing to drink, snort, inject or inhale any substance that might blot out reality and give them a bit of temporary relief.

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.

He was hiding from his problems in a bottle, something that went against every piece of my nature. Me? I couldnʹt let my problems win without a fight.

When I ask Plutarch about his absence, he just shakes his head and says, "He couldnt face it." "Haymitch? Not able to face something? Wanted a day off, more likely," I say. "I think his actual words were 'I couldn't face it without a bottle,'" says Plutarch.