If you want to feel at home, stay home.

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.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

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

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are equidistant from the philatelist's solitary gloating and the football fan's gregarious hysteria.

Wine is a civilizing agent.

If you want to feel at home, stay home.