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

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.

Wine is a grand thing," I said. "It makes you forget all the bad.

The writer's job is to tell the truth.

Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.