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

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is.

Cats are only human, they have their faults.

It is natural and harmless in English to use a preposition to end a sentence with.

Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.

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.