There are two kinds of writers - the great ones who can give you truths, and the lesser ones, who can only give you themselves.
Clifton Fadiman
Name me any liquid except our own blood that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to make our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist. To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history
Clifton Fadiman