I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
...ultimately it come down to, are you making or are you destroying? If you try very hard to create ways of living, create dreams of what is possible, then you win. If you don't, you may make a fortun...
I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.