One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

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.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days--but not without poetry.

When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.

I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

You are right, but the weakness does not come from the millions of Muslims in the world. They do not mind being radical, they have no fear to speak out and to protest and to jihad.

But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.

There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.

When every action of yours is preceded by witnessing, then every move you make in this world becomes perfect and significant.

Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board and look all over the place for the dice.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.