"Do not suffer your life to be..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.”

“I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.”

“We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.”

“Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead.”

“If somebody is smoking a joint in a movie, I say it's a cigarette - a big cigarette if it's a Cheech and Chong movie.”

“All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.”

“And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to the world. If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness.”

“Nature has lent us life at interest, like money, and has fixed no day for its payment.”

“Let your life be your argument.”