When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

The best things in life aren't things.

People who live in glass houses have to wash their windows all the time.

There isn't a child who hasn't gone out into the brave new world who eventually doesn't return to the old homestead carrying a bundle of dirty clothes.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo.

You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

The things that matter most are not things.

This is not an easy time for humorists because the government is far funnier than we are.

I worship the quicksand he [Richard Nixon] walks in.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

Creativity begins with a walk with nature.

What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'

I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

Throughout the course of my life, I have been very fortunate to have had excellent teachers - not just in meditation, but in martial arts, music, scuba diving, and in my academic education.

Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

I don't think we will find a cure for all cancers in the next 50 years let alone 20. I think it's foolishness to say that.