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

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend.

A bottle of wine was good company.

Drinking is a way of ending the day.

Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time).

Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it.