The 'perfect marriage' of food and wine should allow for infidelity".

The right food always comes at the right time. Reliance on out-of-season foods makes the gastronomic year an endlessly boring repetition.

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading it vexes me to choose another guide.

Honestly I think it was gradual from the first time I came. It's been a gradual thing as far as audience and response wise. I feel like I was conditioned for this type of impact.

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

Just this once, let it be easy.

Over my career, I've had to adjust my game.

Television is such a staple of modern society that for most voters, it's not real unless it's on the tube.

I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.

A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!

When we first went there we completely lacked confidence. Our manager told us our act was too long, and told us to drop certain numbers and concentrate on the exciting stuff. And he was right.