“Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
“I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
“I have taken more from alcohol than alcohol has ever taken from me.”
“Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.”
“I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.”
“There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Methyl alcohol, they called "wood spirit"; ethyl alcohol, "wine spirit." Even today, alcoholic beverages are frequently referred to as "spirits." (Modern Arabs, from whose language the word "alcohol" was taken, call ethyl alcohol "spirit" from the English. This is a queer exchange.)”