"Retirement, it seems, is the final fling. The love boat, the trip-around-the-world."

“I was not a member of the SS.”

“While conversion of sugars to ethanol is the predominant reaction, it is only one of potentially thousands of biochemical reactions taking place during fermentation. As a result, wine contains trace amounts of a large number of organic acids, esters, sugars, alcohols, and other molecules. Wine is, in fact, one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.”

“John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.”

“I have also known some of the world's finest brains and some of these, though passionately fond of chess, have been pretty poor players. I used to know one of the world's leading mathematicians and whenever we played chess I had to give him the odds of a Queen to make matters more equal, and even then I always won.”

“We only get to be one person; we don't even get to choose that person. By the time we get ahold of ourselves, we are pieces already in play.”

“I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.”

“Mind the dead man, my dear.”

“When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.”