The German Mind Has A Talent For

Wine Is A Civilizing Agent.

When You Reread A Classic, You Do Not See More In The Book Than You Did Before; You See More In You Than There Was Before.

Liquor Is Not A Necessity. It Is A Means Of Momentarily Sidestepping Necessity.

To Divide One's Life By Years Is Of Course To Tumble Into A Trap Set By Our Own Arithmetic. The Calendar Consents To Carry On Its Dull Wall-existence By The Arbitrary Timetables We Have Drawn Up In Consultation With Those Permanent Commuters, Earth And Sun. But We, Unlike Trees, Need Grow No Annual Rings.

Reading Is Not An Operation Performed On Something Inert But A Relationship Entered Into With Another Vital Being.