When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
Dr. Seuss provided “ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
Wine is poetry in a bottle.
The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
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.
We are all citizens of history.
A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.
One’s first book, kiss, home run is always the best.