When It Came To Writing About Wine,

Americans Are Just Beginning To Regard Food The Way The French Always Have. Dinner Is Not What You Do In The Evening Before Something Else. Dinner Is The Evening.

You Can't Make Up Anything Anymore. The World Itself Is A Satire. All You're Doing Is Recording It.

This Is What Makes Me Happy: ...any Music-free Restaurant ... A Grandson Who Offers To Clean The Snow Off My Driveway And Also Fix My Computer ... An Evening In Bed With A Good Book. ... A Good Night's Sleep ... As You Can See, It Doesn't Take Much To Make Me Happy.

No One Ever Mentioned It, But Thousands Of Men Welcomed World War Ii As A Way To Escape Their Humdrum Lives Rather Than A Chance To Fight For God And Country.

I Don't Mind 800 Million Chinese Drinking A Bottle [of Coca-cola] A Day, But I Don't Want Them To Bring Back The Empties.