drinker quotes

'Poe,' I said,'was perhaps the first great nonstop literary drinker of the American nineteenth century. He made the indulgences of Coleridge and De Quincey seem like a bit of mischief in the kitchen with the cooking sherry.

-James Grover Thurber
  Alarms and Diversions,'The Moribundant Life, or, Grow Old Along withWhom?'.