“Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”

“...almost every pearl on sale today was born of the planned sexual violation of a small creature, and that considerable suffering hangs on those necklace strings.”

“I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other.”

“If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat's 'purple-stained mouth', or perhaps even of Homer's dangerously wine-dark sea.”

“All the nut eaters and food faddists I have ever known, died early after a long period of senile decay - Winston Churchill”

“What they signified was precious, but what they were was not.”

“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”