Pinot noir is the ultimate wine to have at the table. It's a white wine masquerading as red...[while] chardonnay is a red masquerading as a white.

As one California winemaker said, "We release no wine before the bank tells us that its ready."

How do you make a small fortune in the wine business? Start with a large fortune and buy a winery.

Here’s my prediction: Ninety percent of what everyone will drink will be red wine, and one of the biggest markets will be China.

Every child is a packet of disappointments, hurts, dangers.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation.

I am trying to attend every training session and do all of my workouts.

If something happens to your son, your thoughts about not having him in your life is what your terror is. It's not about his life.

Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

I think you should not limit yourself to dating somebody older or younger.

This business of saying the same thing over and over and over again – which to a lot of Washington insiders and pundits is boring – works.

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.