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

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."

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

Be willing to take a stand for the things you believe in, because no one else will stand there for you.

Maybe princes aren’t real, ” Sada said. Her eyes were crafty and sad at the same time. “But monsters are.” She opened her mouth wide and showed Azhar the wildflowers sitting on her tongue.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.

Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.

If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.

I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.

I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.