Don't worry about calling for me. Just pop a cork loudly enough and I'll come running.

Drinking champagne after making love is like taking a bath in chilled pearls.

I never touch it. Not directly, anyway. I always use a glass.

I have yet to discover a dish that will not come alive in the presence of champagne.

Men weigh love with hands.

I do not preach doubtingly, for I do not live doubtingly.

A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.

The Shobogenzo is an enormous work that captures the vastness of Dogen's realization. Kaz, over many years, threaded the beads of these many fascicles into a great mala of wisdom.

Compassion is not a popular virtue

Life is but one continual course of instruction. The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.