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

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

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.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

Being in love is the best thing in my life.

Humility is honestly assessing ourselves in light of God’s holiness and our sinfulness.

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the Genesis of our species into conscious awareness.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

I mean, Manhattan is cool. But weird parts, I like that. Jamaica, Queens, that's great.

The soul of India lives in its villages.

I didn't ask my mother to buy me a trumpet or a violin, I started right on the water hose.

No one laughs at God in a hospital.

During the rest of my screen career, I am going to continue doing vampires as long as people sin. For I believe that humanity needs the moral lesson and it needs it in repeatedly larger doses.