When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

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.

You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

An injustice committed against anyone is a threat to everyone.

The irony here is we're looking for water and we're looking out for water. Without it you die, and with too much of it you die.

Feed the alligators and you get bigger alligators.

Seal Team Six is a different unit than the rest of the SEAL teams inasmuch as they concentrate primarily on one thing, counter-terrorism, hostage rescue.

I cannot tell you anything that you don't already know, but it is known in silence.

It takes a checkbook to change the world

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?