One's first book kiss home run is always the best.

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.

I try not to take things lying down, especially rectal thermometers

I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.

With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.

It's too hard a life for me. I could only do it - check out in that sense - if I checked out somewhere that was luxurious and within hailing distance of civilization.

The Steinway pianos of today are the finest I have ever played.

You'd rather own gold; not the miner

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Aerosmith-one of the 10 best bands today? Yeah definitely.