Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.

I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.

It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.

Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.

One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.

Now that we have that settled, I want to focus my attention on something else or should I say someone else... That someone else is you.

Channing does a very good impersonation of men at female strip joints.

It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

The kingdom of birds is divided into two departments - birds and House Sparrows. House Sparrows are not real birds - they are little beasts!

So many years of preparation, for what was called adult life: was it for this?

It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.

The Bible is the place where God bears His soul.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

You can change. You can be more than you are.