“The English seem to think drinking wine is like committing adultery, something you do rarely and abroad.”

“It seems there is something spiritual in wine.”

“You know that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.”

“I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do — and I have done it — and God forgives me for it."”

“To put it in simple English, you break the law, you commit a crime, you do the time.”

“Writing poems is perhaps the loveliest deception
Later they'll make a picture or something, then go and drink wine”

“I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.”

“It’s that feeling when you make it home Friday night and pour yourself a drink or a glass of wine and feel like the blood has drained out of you… I actually think burnout is the wrong description of it. I think it’s ‘burn up. Physiologically, that is what you are doing because of the chronic stress being placed on your body.”

“The Bible says that lust in your heart is committing adultery, so you can't masturbate without lust.”

“In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong.”