“Life's too short to drink cheap wine...”

“Life is too short to read bad books or drink bad wine.”

“Mocking a woman is like drinking too much wine. It may be fun for a short time, but the hangover is hell.”

“Life is too short to try and glue together broken plates that were cheap in the first place.”

“She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.”

“What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.”