To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

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.

When you start to fall, don't try to talk yourself out of it. The right man will be there at the bottom, to catch you.

There are some people that you cannot change you must either swallow them whole or leave them alone.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.

I mean no disrespect to anything I did before.

When you play against an experienced opponent who exploits all the defensive resources at his command you sometimes have to walk time and again, along the narrow path of 'the only move'.

Yeah, yeah, it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye type of thing. There's that kind of irreverence to it the humor and in the reality of what's really going on that plays into this movie.

I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am. Authors want their names down in history; I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!