“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.”

“Don't die with a bottle of champagne in your fridge.”

“I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.”

“The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle of champagne, it's a celebration, so there's no better way of starting a celebration than opening a bottle of champagne. Every time you sip it, you're sipping from all those other celebrations. The joy accumulates over time.”

“It was now December 7, 1941; the date that Franklin D. Roosevelt was destined to declare would live in infamy.”

“Bottles of wine aren't like paintings. At some point you have to consume them. The object in life is to die with no bottles of wine in your cellar. To drink your last bottle of wine and go to sleep that night and not wake up.”