Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one

Wine is a civilizing agent.