The drinking of wine seems to me to have a moral edge over many pleasures and hobbies in that it promotes love of one's neighbor.

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

Wine is poetry in a bottle.

One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

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

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.