“You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?”
Graham Greene book Monsignor Quixote
On a priest who pantomimes Mass, Monsignor Quixote, PBS TV (February 13, 1987)
“I think there’s a reason why wine figures into so many religions. There’s something transcendent about it. It’s sort of the way that music is more than the sum of its parts. You have all these elements that make up the terroir that wine can communicate.”
Matthew Lickona (December 24, 2008) "Hedonistic" http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2008/dec/24/Hedonistic/, San Diego Reader.
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