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.

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

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them.

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

How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.