“As for your circumcisions, the chief modin can arrange all. Your wine must return to the earth, whence the grape came. Haram.”

“guilt to motherhood is like grapes to wine”

“You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area.”

“What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.”

“Grape on the vine… why not be crushed to make wine?”

“I said, to the people of the Philippines whence I came, I shall return. Tonight, I repeat those words: I shall return!”

“Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.”

“The earth keeps some vibration going
There in your heart, and that is you.
And if the people find you can fiddle,
Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.”

“Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.”

“It was an okay vintage, if you could get past the fact that it was wine, and—stripped of the ability to get drunk on it—wine was just sour grape juice.”