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

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.

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.

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

I think he's jealous.

Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

The harder it is, the better you become.

Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.

And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.

Laws can never be enforced unless fear supports them.