"Even more importantly, it's wine, food and the arts. Incorporating those three enhances the quality of life."

"There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give."

"I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness."

"I always knew that food and wine were vital, with my mother being Italian and a good cook."

"The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important."

"Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values."

"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart."

"The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?"