Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

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.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it up and makes it again.

I don't belong to a working system. They only select people if you belong to one so you can be controlled.

I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.

When I'm in my normal mood, music drips from my fingers.

I really don’t think you should put your hand inside the manticore, dear. You don’t know where it’s been.” –Enid Healy

I am growing to love DC.This [Washington] is a beautiful city. I think every citizen should come see their capital. A lot of the museums are free, there are restaurants that are reasonably priced.

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.