It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

Dedicated to all those who say: "I don't have time for analytics" or "I don't understand analytics".

Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.