Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

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.

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.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

Trials are a measure of your faith, so be courageous when going through trials in life.

Love is not everything

But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.

The streetlight forge speech bubbles of illumination in the air. A faint glow from the moon casts eerie shadows behind the dark clouds.

Hugs are great, but - better than drugs? Come on. Let me put it to you this way: I never drove to Harlem at 4 a.m. to get somebody to hug me.

Your silence will not protect you.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.

Nobody really needs a mink coat... Except the mink.

I think that has a lot of dangers, as does government surveillance, which is way too high.