1. “An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit.”
2. “If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.”
3. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”
4. “Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.”
5. “One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”
6. “Reading to small children is a speciality.”
7. “A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.”
8. “A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.”
9. “The man who attracts luck carries with him the magnet of preparation.”
10. “We are all citizens of history .”
11. “A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.”
12. “To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.”
13. “Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.”
14. “Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.”
15. “Cheese is milk’s leap towards immortality.”
16. “Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.”
17. “Being a child is in itself a profession.”
18. “I tried to use the questions and answers as an armature on which to build a sculpture of genuine conversation.”
19. “Wine is a civilizing agent.”
20. “As between mileage and experience choose experience.”
