We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight.

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.

You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before.