Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing.

If alcohol is queen, then tobacco is her consort. It's a fond companion for all occasions, a loyal friend through fair weather and foul.

Like the majority of deaf people, I don't like blind people much.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

The bar... is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable-and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.