There are some amazingly good wines for five dollars a bottle.

Beaujolais is the only white wine that happens to be red.

A wine is ready when you can't bear to wait for it any longer.

I was beginning to think that Simon just had a bad case of OCD, ADD, and PMS. With a little BS and OMG mixed in.

An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

History is the shank of the social sciences.

I feel it right down in my stomach when I'm in touch with something. I don't know what it is.

I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did.

It is hard for people who have not lived in Los Angeles to realize how radically the Santa Ana figures in the local imagination. ... The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

You can learn to direct yourself to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening with your body.

You cannot leave the house to take the garbage out without full-on makeup and your hair done. You have to fight for your man out there.

Fogg states that all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to seek hope and avoid fear; and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection

Cosmic humor, especially about your own predicament, is an important part of your journey.