Here’s my prediction: Ninety percent of what everyone will drink will be red wine, and one of the biggest markets will be China.

Pinot noir is the ultimate wine to have at the table. It's a white wine masquerading as red...[while] chardonnay is a red masquerading as a white.

As one California winemaker said, "We release no wine before the bank tells us that its ready."

How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.

When you have a great and difficult task something perhaps almost impossible if you only work a little at a time every day a little suddenly the work will finish itself.

There are moderates in Syria who we should be supporting.

And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market

I don't really trust ideas - especially good ones... Rather, I put my trust in the materials that confront me, because they put me in touch with the unknown.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach.

I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

I'm not doing the run to become rich or famous.

We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.