I look at life as being cruise director on the Titanic. I may not get there, but I'm going first class.

Put yourself in Hamlet's shoes. Suppose you were a prince, and you came back from college to discover that your uncle had murdered your father and married your mother, and you fell in love with a beautiful girl and mistakenly murdered her father, and then she went crazy and drowned herself. What would you do? Go back for a masters?

I earned my stripes as a Marine, and the Corps gets full credit for straightening me out. At 17, I was young, I was unhappy and most of all, I was undisciplined. The Marine Corps was the right service in the right place at the right time.

When it came to writing about wine, I did what almost everybody does - faked it

Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life.

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

Tax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.