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

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

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.

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.

You are the world. Everything that you see around you is a reflection of your soul and mind.

Endurance of life problems, spirit of survival.

It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.

I didn't vote for him, but he's my President, and I hope he does a good job.

I think Donald Trump is now kind of in love with the idea of becoming president of the United States. I think he truly does believe that he can be the Republican nominee.

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

Knowledge can be like the skin on the surface of the water in a pond, or it can go all the way down to the mud. It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred percent.

Words are music, really.