For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

There's a fine line between forgiveness and denial.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.

Once darkness has what its wants, it drops you like a hot potato.

Keep a spur handy.

We often live next to monsters unawares.

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

Everything's funny for God's sake. Everything.

Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld; they are the funny trio.

Let's not get too full of ourselves. Let's leave space for God to come into the room.