Be fully in the moment,open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you.

A man does not exist until he is drunk.

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.

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

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