Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

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.

Love must face reality, if it is to surviveJumping in the Puddles of Life

What a treacherous thing a body was, how it so blatantly acted out the mind’s secrets.

I also believe, without any supporting evidence, that cats are evil.

I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye.

I can’t tell by looking in your eyes whether you’re a priest or a crook.

The new kind of dancing meant liberation not only from the rules of leading and following but from rules of any kind.

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he always managed to make them seem unintelligible. I hope he is in Hell.

When I awake Yesterday is far away When I awake I don't recall your name, my only friend.

Seek freedom within action.

Style is very different from fashion. Once you find something that works, keep it.