He who truly believes he has a hangover has no hangover.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out.

I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

Death has this much to be said for it: You don't have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.