There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?" "No. They only say that I'm good in the sack." "They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them.

I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.

There's something about being able to literally consume a work of art - then to divide all that pleasure of it - because it's a memory. A great wine for me is a memory, it's an extraordinary experience.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.