Booze, of course, and then curtains.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  His response to being asked how he would spend his Booker Prize cheque, 22 Oct.

But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

-Faulkner,William Harrison
Quoted in Webb and Wigfall Green William Faulkner of Oxford (1965).

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent business man.

-Lewis, (Harry) Sinclair
  Babbitt, ch.14.