A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.