Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking.

I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.

Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.