A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

More always means worse.

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls)."