“I didn't like having my inhibitions lowered. If i was going to cut loose, i wanted to be in control of just how loose i got.”
“Alcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.”
“Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who put off writing bad poetry. Merits were for sex addicts, Salems were for alcoholics, and Mores were for people who considered themselves to be outrageous but really weren't.”
“...our moral and practical attitude....impulses, inhibitions.... how it contains and moulds us by its restrictive pressure almost as if we were fluids pent with the cavity of a jar.... It becomes our subconscious. [p. 287]”
“Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.”