Wine is a civilizing agent.

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.

Nearly all problems of human behavior stem from our failure to ensure that people live in environments that nurture their well-being.

Karma and manifestation work 24/7 to balance the scales. Do justice, in due time.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player. I am a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

The first thing we have to do is get rid of the pentameter. To ditch the pentameter.

American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds.

Alexander to Tatiana: I love you as much as it is possible for a man to love a woman.

I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.

Our opinions of the world, are confessions of character.

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations.