Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.

I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.

It needs only a good bottle of wine for a roast chicken to be transformed into a banquet.

Wine ... changing even as we taste it, delivers a message with meaning only in our response. If we are in the right key when we receive it, our eyes will shine and we shall radiate pleasure.

One thing I don't think that we have enough of in wine writing is the use of cause and effect. Whatever wine tastes like, whatever you're going to do with it, it is as it is for a reason.

Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.

Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory.

Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope.

Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.

He rarely knows the result of a battle when the battle is over.

You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

I strongly believe that no one can be a true feminist without being an atheist. All religions are anti-women. No one can be pro-woman while supporting anti-woman dogmas.

I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.