“Give me some more wine, because life is nothing.”

“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”

“I am not sure I trust you."
"You can trust me with your life, My King."
"But not with my wine, obviously. Give it back.”

“his mighty shoulders twitched. "A murrain of these wizardly feuds! Pelias has dealt well with me, but I care not if I see him no more. Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in. Damnation! What would I not give for a flagon of wine!"”

“Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.”

“With years a richer life begins,
The spirit mellows:
Ripe age gives tone to violins,
Wine, and good fellows.”

“Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility”

“The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.”

“Nothing," she said softly. "A queen must possess nothing to rule because she has to give everything she has to her people. Even her life.”

“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”