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

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life.

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.