Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

How little we know of what there is to know.

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.