And you're going, "Red or white wine, well, what would you like, darling? I don't know, what would you like?", all to block out the thought that's in your mind which is - "We're gonna die, we're all gonna die, we're all gonna die, right now. The plane is made of metal, the wings are made of metal, we're all eating, and I'm the only non-terrorist aboard, we're all going to die."
On travelling by aeroplane.
Like, Totally (2006)
“The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.”
Interviewed in 2004 http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,65688,00.html
“How does it feel, MacKayla? You have a piece of me in your mouth. Would you like another?”
Source: Faefever
"Delirium" (1913)
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/29/wild-heart-turning-white-georg-trakl-and-cocaine/
“Would you be upset if you found out your dog was just a robot and it was being driven by a lizard?”
"RT Podcast: Ep. 240" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FJfRkg2dfQ. youtube.com. October 22, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
"Love after Love"
Source: "A Far Cry from Africa" (1962), Collected Poems, 1948-1984 (1986)
“You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.”
On a Dull Writer, reported in John Hawkesworth, The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin (1754), p. 265. Alternately attributed to Alexander Pope by Bartlett's Quotations, 10th Edition (1919). Compare: "His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home", William Cowper, Conversation, line 303
Disputed
“You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come;
Knock as you please, there's nobody at home.”
Credited as Epigram: An Empty House (1727), or On a Dull Writer; alternately attributed to Jonathan Swift in John Hawkesworth, The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin (1754), p. 265. Compare: "His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home", William Cowper, Conversation, line 303.
Misattributed
