I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early 'forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.