“Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary...”
“By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.”
“It's all about the "French Paradox," that much-publicized puzzle of how French people eat all that fatty food and drink tons of wine, yet still manage to be svelte and sophisticated, not to mention cheese-eating surrender monkeys.”
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
“It's not "jalan-jalan" nor "liburan". It's just something we do naturally. Like breathing and eating. It's basically living.”
“Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.”