When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

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.

You might plan how to sleep but you can't plan how to wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planer, he who plans out to wake up is a Dreamer.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

Come close now,' ordered Fenworth. 'Time for an exit. I think we'll whirl, Kale likes to whirl. Hold hands. Let's stay together, children. I want no one lost.

To judge religion we must have it--not stare at it from the bottom of a seemingly interminable ladder.

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

I think it is hard to find happiness, as a whole, in anything. The days of tender youth are gone. I think you can be delirious in your youth, but as you get older, things happen.

The only thing you can be is yourself nothing more nothing less