I cling to him like he's what keeps me thriving. Because he is.
If your ethical model defeats you, change the model.
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.
Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.
And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.
I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge.
Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
Rome is magic, it's like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don't have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.
I felt that we couldn't win the game. It was absolutely shocking.