The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine and independent living, and for that a professional chair offers no special opportunities.
I am going to enjoy life in Paris I know. It is so human and there is something noble in the city... It is a real city, old and fine and life plays in it for everybody to see.
I love the finer things.
Literature exists so that where one man has lived finely ten thousand may afterward live finely
Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.
Some people hate funerals. I find them comforting. They hit the pause button on life and remind us that it has an end. Every eulogy reminds me to deepen my dash, that place on the tombstone between our birth and our death.
Fromage and coffee and cognac and no gods.
