Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

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.

maybe somebody finally shot the dog.

How much easier it is to be poor than rich.

Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.

The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.

My favorite actor is Steve McQueen, and he did his own stunts.

Wisdom makes light the darkness of ignorance.

The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

The whole object of science is to synthesize, and so simplify; and did we but know the uttermost of a subject we could make it singularly clear.